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Rob Curley

Rob Curley

Current Position: Executive Editor

Rob Curley is the executive 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. His work in newsrooms, dating back to the 1990s, resulted in some of the largest and most award-winning news sites on the internet, but local journalism and community engagement have always been the main focal points of Curley’s work. He has started several, large-scale community initiatives through the newspaper — including the Northwest Passages events series and the largest, paid high school newspaper internship program in the country. During his time, the newspaper has become a national leader in philanthropic-funded journalism and the use of Creative Commons. This alternate funding has allowed The Spokesman-Review to become the smallest newspaper in the nation to have a bureau in the nation’s capital, to continue to have a bureau in Olympia, WA., covering statewide issues and politics, and — with one of the nation’s largest Ukrainian populations in the nation — The Spokesman-Review was one of the smallest news organizations in the world to send a reporter to Ukraine to cover the war with Russia through the eyes of its own community.

Email
robc@spokesman.com
Phone
(509) 459-5590

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Opinion >  Column

Rob Curley: Elections are always important, especially in a changing world. That’s why newspapers need to change, too

In a world filled with disinformation and “alternative facts,” we need to find ways to reach more people, give them a better understanding of complicated and ever-changing topics, and be a hand in helping our community have discussions. Essentially: How do communities work together to find solutions instead of just pointing out problems?
Opinion >  Column

Rob Curley: What exactly is a Jayhawk? Or a Zag, for that matter?

When you’re a college basketball fan who grew up in Kansas and now lives in Spokane, some questions are inevitable. Here are two: Your friends in the Pacific Northwest want to know just what in the heck a Jayhawk actually is. Those back in the rectangle state would really like to understand what in the world a Zag is.

Who wrote that opinion? Going forward, you’ll know the answer

Opinions have played a huge role in American newspapers, dating back before the Revolutionary War. It was this country’s desired independence from British rule that first showed the power of newspapers to unite people for a common cause.