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Mary Beth Donelan joined The Spokesman-Review in 1989. As Newsroom Office Manager and member of the management team, she supervises the newsroom support staff and the research library staff, works closely with and coordinates requests from reporters and editors and monitors newsroom budgets and payroll.
Joined The Spokesman-Review in 2014. He currently is the Business Editor.
Ryan Horlen edits stories, writes headlines and occasionally produces layout pages.
Michael McGarr joined The Spokesman-Review in 2005. He is the opinion page coordinator.
Lindsey Treffry joined The Spokesman-Review in 2015. She is the Assistant Managing Editor for News, designing pages, editing stories and managing the copy desk.
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Liz Zuchetto edits stories and photo captions and writes headlines.
Molly Quinn joined The Spokesman-Review in 1991. She currently is a graphic artist/illustrator for the Editorial Department.
Chris Soprych joined The Spokesman-Review in 2016. He is the Assistant Managing Editor for Design and is responsible for the look and feel of The Spokesman-Review. He designs the front page every day and works on multimedia projects as well. Chris has previously worked for the Seattle Times, Chicago Tribune and most recently at the Orange County Register.
Rick Bonino is a senior correspondent who writes a monthly beer column for the Today section.
Cindy Hval is a freelance columnist and correspondent. Her Front Porch column appears on alternate Thursdays in the Voices section. Her articles appear in the Features section and throughout the newspaper. You can reach her at dchval@juno.com or www.cindyhval.com
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Carolyn Lamberson joined The Spokesman-Review in 2008. As the Assistant Managing Editor/Features, she oversees the daily feature sections, including Food, 7, Family, Health and Today.
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Treva Lind joined The Spokesman-Review in 2016, after 12 years working as a correspondent. She is a reporter for Features covering aging and family issues.
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Kimberly Lusk joined The Spokesman-Review in 1998. She currently is the Deputy Features Editor and a features page designer.
Susan Mulvihill is a freelance gardening columnist for the Today section.
Azaria Podplesky joined the Spokesman-Review in 2013. She is the entertainment writer, covering music, comedy, theater and community events.
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Rachel Toor is a freelance columnist who writes a column titled, "Everything is Copy."
Paul Turner joined The Spokesman-Review in 1988 after starting his journalism career in 1976 and working for newspapers in Arizona, Texas and Tennessee. He is a features columnist. His column, The Slice, appears six times a week.
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Rachel Baker joined The Spokesman-Review in 2017. As an Editorial Assistant, she inputs letters to the editor, compiles content for Today and Voice sections and composes the Education Notebook.
Jonathan Brunt joined The Spokesman-Review in 2004. He is the government editor. He previously was a reporter who covered Spokane City Hall, Spokane County government and public safety.
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Jim Camden joined The Spokesman-Review in 1981. He is currently the political reporter and state government reporter in the newspaper's Olympia bureau office.
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Will Campbell came to the Spokesman-Review in 2018 as an intern. Will is a general assignment reporter for The Spokesman-Review.
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Thomas Clouse joined The Spokesman-Review in 1999. He currently is an investigative reporter for the City Desk and covers federal, state and local courts.
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Rob Curley is the editor of The Spokesman-Review and joined the newspaper in 2016. He has previously held leadership positions at The Orange County Register, Las Vegas Sun, Washington Post and Lawrence Journal-World.
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Joined The Spokesman-Review in 2013. He is the urban issues reporter, covering transportation, housing, development and other issues affecting the city. He also writes the Getting There transportation column and The Dirt, a roundup of construction projects, new businesses and expansions. He previously covered Spokane City Hall.
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Amy Edelen joined The Spokesman-Review in 2017. She is currently a reporter for the City Desk covering Spokane Valley city hall and community news. She also writes news features about people and events.
Jonathan Glover joined the Spokesman-Review in 2016 as a general news intern. He currently is a reporter for the City Desk covering public safety, cops and courts.
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An architect and rancher, she writes a column for the Spokesman-Review as a correspondent.
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Nathanael Massey is the Assistant City Desk Editor for The Spokesman-Review, covering local and regional news. He also monitors the the city desk after 6 P.M.
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Joe Palmquist joined The Spokesman-Review in 1988 as the Assistant Sports Editor. He was named Sports Editor in 2003 and became the Managing Editor in 2017.
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Chad Sokol joined The Spokesman-Review in 2015. He is a reporter for the City Desk covering higher education and county government.
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John Stucke joined The Spokesman-Review in 2000. As Metro Editor, he directs local news coverage and oversees newsroom reporters. He has reported on business, health care, bankruptcy and agriculture for the paper.
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Shawn Vestal joined The Spokesman-Review in 1999. He currently is a columnist for the City Desk.
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Donna Wares came to The Spokesman-Review in 2017 and is a senior editor and director of The Spokesman-Review’s Northwest Passages Book Club and Community Forum. She previously worked at the Orange County Register as managing editor and the Los Angeles Times as national weekend editor, among other publications.
Rebecca White joined The Spokesman-Review in 2018. A 2018 graduate of Washington State University, she currently works as the nightside cops and courts reporter.
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Dan Gayle joined The Spokesman-Review in 2013. He is currently a Python/Django developer in the newsroom, primarily responsible for front end development and design of spokesman.com.
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Tyler Grippi joined The Spokesman-Review in 2010. He currently is a web producer for the Sports Desk.
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Rob Kauder joined The Spokesman-Review in 2016. He is currently an Online Producer in the newsroom.
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Sean Stoops joined The Spokesman-Review as the Online Director in 2017. He is currently Assistant Managing Editor for Digital.
Libby Kamrowski joined The Spokesman-Review in 2018. She is the Newsroom Archivist and is responsible for photo sales and library research. She also has a background in photojournalism.
Liz Kishimoto joined The Spokesman-Review in 1995. She currently is Assistant Managing Editor/Photo.
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Colin Mulvany joined The Spokesman-Review in 1988. He currently is a photojournalist in the Photo Department covering daily news and Gonzaga basketball.
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Kathy Plonka joined The Spokesman-Review in 1998. She currently is a photojournalist in the Photo Department covering daily news in Spokane and Idaho.
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Jesse Tinsley joined The Spokesman-Review in 1989. He currently is a photojournalist in the Photo Department covering daily news and shoots drone photography.
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Tyler Tjomsland joined The Spokesman-Review in 2012. He currently is a photojournalist in the Photo Department covering daily news and WSU football.
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John Blanchette is a freelance columnist who writes about local sports issues.
TwitterNorman Chad is a syndicated sports columnist who regularly appears in The Spokesman-Review.
Collingwood is a Coeur d'Alene native, Collingwood has worked at other daily newspapers in the region, including the Coeur d'Alene Press, Lewiston Tribune and Helena Independent Record.
Chris Derrick joined The Spokesman-Review in 1990. He currently is a copy editor for the Sports Desk.
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Eli Francovich joined the Spokesman Review in 2015. He currently is the Outdoors reporter for the SR.
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Vince Grippi is a freelance local sports blogger for spokesman.com. He also contributes to the SportsLink Blog.
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Peter Harriman is a freelance correspondent who covers the University of Idaho football team and men's basketball team.
Bill Jennings writes a weekly winter skiing column featuring a wide rage of topics from Inland Northwest slopes.
Alan Liere is a freelance columnist for the sports department who writes a weekly hunting and fishing report.
Madison McCord joined The Spokesman-Review in 2017 and is currently a copy editor and page designer for the Sports Desk.
Jim Meehan joined The Spokesman-Review in 1990. Jim is currently a reporter for the Sports Desk and covers Gonzaga University basketball, Spokane Empire football, college volleyball and golf.
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Dave Nichols joined The Spokesman-Review in 2014. He currently is the prep writer covering Eastern Washington and North Idaho high school sports.
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David Oriard joined The Spokesman-Review in 1985 and has been a full-time copy editor on the sports desk since 1996. He has been the Assistant Sports Editor since 2014.
Chuck Stewart edits stories for the Sports department.
Mike Vlahovich is a freelance correspondent for the sports department.
Ralph Walter joined The Spokesman-Review in 1992. He currently is the Assistant Managing Editor for Sports.
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Jill Barville is a freelance columnist for the Voices neighborhood sections.
Steve Christilaw is a freelance columnist who writes a regular sports column for the Voice publications.
Nina Culver is a freelancer for The Spokesman-Review's daily newspaper and weekly Voice sections.
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Katharine Kumangai joined The Spokesman-Review in 1983. She is a copy editor, page designer and headline writer. She also is the editor of the Voice sections.
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Pat Munts is a freelance columnist for the Voices neighborhood sections. Her gardening column appears in the Thursday Voice.
Stefanie Pettit is a freelance columnist for the Voices neighborhood sections. Her columns include Landmarks, featuring historic buildings and sites, and Front Porch.
