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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. In 2023, the news nonprofit Curley founded -- the Comma community journalism lab -- received its 501c3 status from the Internal Revenue Service, and helped relaunch the region's Black newspaper, The Black Lens.

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

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Opinion >  Column

Rob Curley: Return of Northwest section appreciated, but Dorothy brought the biggest cheers

The calls were immediate. Emails quickly followed. Now the stamped letters are arriving at our building on West Riverside. There have been a lot of changes to The Spokesman-Review over the last few months. We hear about them all. Almost instantly. Most have been met positively. Though we get an earful often enough. But nothing we’ve done to try to improve our newspaper has received the response that we got from the return of Dorothy Dean.
Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

Zags’ secret to success? They like each other

This isn’t their first rodeo. Gonzaga knows exactly what it’s like to be the No. 1 team in the nation. And when it happened the first time back in 2013, the naysayers couldn’t wait to shake their heads and talk about strength of schedule and whole bunch of other numerologically based hoops hokum that sounds a little like one of those uncomfortable medical tests where you’re told not to eat the night before.
Sports >  Gonzaga basketball

Humble Mike Roth oversees remarkable Gonzaga story

The world is watching now. But it wasn’t always that way. There was a time – and it really wasn’t all that long ago – when Gonzaga athletic director Mike Roth remembers looking around the Martin Centre and wondering if there were more people on the team benches than there were in the stands.