Founder and publisher Shereen Siewert says the Pilot did its due diligence before naming Cory Tomczyk, now a state senator, as the source of a homophobic slur. She says she is 100 percent confident in our reporting.
Lindsay Folker headed to the state Capitol for Janet Protasiewicz’s swearing-in ceremony in a celebratory mood, unaware that controversy was already swirling over the firing of state courts director Randy Koschnick by the new liberal majority.
In April 2021 Isthmus became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. We returned to print in August 2021, 17 months after the shutdown. We have not missed a month since and are now a small staff of 6.5.
As spelled out on the Madison Metropolitan School District’s website, its communications department is supposed to serve “students, parents, the community and the media by delivering clear, timely and accurate information.”
With the advent of the internet, and the economic damage it has inflicted on journalism, news outlets have shrunk. One of the impacts we have seen locally is the loss of reporters whose sole focus is to cover county government and county issues.