Rob Curley

Current Position: Executive Editor

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.

Email: robc@spokesman.com
Phone: (509) 459-5030
Twitter: Twitter

Most Recent Stories

Opinion > Column

Rob Curley: Visit Olaf in downtown Spokane today and help a worthy cause in annual Kettle Kickoff

Thu., Nov. 17, 2022

At 11 a.m. on Thursday, Olaf and his buddies will be ringing the Salvation Army bell in front of The Spokesman-Review building. And if you are in a really giving mood, you'll get the coolest tour in Spokane with the best selfie this side of Arendelle.

Opinion > Column

Buy a piece of Spokane history, making sure that our community’s living history continues to be written

Fri., Sept. 30, 2022

For more than 140 years, The Spokane Daily Chronicle and The Spokesman-Review took all of their newspapers each month and bound them into massive books. Every page of every newspaper from each month of each year. A unique circumstance has made it so we now have two copies of each book. We'd like for you to have one.

Opinion > Column

Rob Curley: Our interns are cooler than your interns (and probably a whole lot younger)

UPDATED: Mon., Nov. 14, 2022

They are from high schools across the area: Mead, Rogers, Deer Park and Lewis and Clark. Before coming together in The Spokesman-Review newsroom eight weeks ago, they had never met each other. Even those who were from the same schools. There aren’t many ways they could possibly be any more different from each other.

Opinion > Column

Rob Curley: Dear reader – Here’s why it’s more expensive to subscribe to The Spokesman-Review (but still worth it)

UPDATED: Mon., June 13, 2022

The letter arrived a little more than month ago and was hand-written, which always makes an impression when it’s so easy to just send an email. Only she hadn’t written it neatly in cursive for that reason.

Sports > Gonzaga basketball

Gonzaga super fan finally gets up-close look at WCC tournament he never misses

Tue., March 8, 2022

Ed Dzama has been nervous before plenty of Gonzaga games. But Monday’s West Coast Conference Tournament game in Las Vegas was a little different. For a whole bunch of reasons.

Opinion > Column

Rob Curley: Spokane and Las Vegas couldn’t be more different, yet both feel like home for Wynn exec

UPDATED: Sun., March 6, 2022

Despite a pretty darn nice office located in one of the most beautiful resorts in Las Vegas, Deanna Pettit-Irestone isn’t ashamed to admit that she still gets a little homesick for Spokane. Pettit-Irestone makes it back to see her family in Eastern Washington and North Idaho a couple of times each year.

Opinion > Column

Rob Curley: Las Vegas travel guide for the Zags fan who’s already done all the Sin City classics

UPDATED: Fri., March 4, 2022

Basketball fans from around these parts have migrated each spring to Las Vegas since 2009. We know things. One of the only sure bets in Sin City is that any self-respecting Gonzaga fan can give you better and more truthful advice on the college hoops conference tournament capital of the world than any of those tourism guides.

Opinion > Column

Rob Curley: Cooper Kupp takes his big win and heads to Disneyland, family in tow

UPDATED: Tue., Feb. 15, 2022

The phrase has become as synonymous with the Super Bowl as extravagant halftime shows and goofy commercials. You know the one – the one that typically follows some form of the question, “You’ve just won the Super Bowl. What are you going to do next?”

Opinion > Column

Rob Curley: Big changes ahead in 2022 for The Spokesman-Review

Sun., Jan. 9, 2022

Not that it seems possible, but Year 2 of the modern pandemic era actually felt even more eventful than the first.