As nonprofit takeover looms, Spokesman-Review union rebukes plan to keep embattled editor Rob Curley

Despite concerns newsroom staffers shared with InvestigateWest and RANGE, the nonprofit taking over Spokane’s daily paper plans to keep Curley in a leadership role

By: Wilson Criscione, Daisy Zavala Magaña

Outlets: InvestigateWest

Published: October 21, 2026

Words: 1,702

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 5 days ago

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This report was produced in a collaboration between InvestigateWest and RANGE.

The nonprofit poised to take over The Spokesman-Review at the end of October plans to keep suspended executive editor Rob Curley in a leadership role, drawing renewed opposition from the newspaper’s union.

Curley was suspended by The Spokesman-Review in August as the paper was preparing to transfer ownership to a nonprofit he founded, Comma Community Journalism Lab. But as InvestigateWest and RANGE …

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