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.
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Most Recent Stories
Rob Curley: Teen Journalism Institute’s Class of 2023 high school interns is full of firsts
It never gets any easier. But it also gets more and more rewarding each summer.
Rob Curley: Visit Olaf in downtown Spokane today and help a worthy cause in annual Kettle Kickoff
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.
Buy a piece of Spokane history, making sure that our community’s living history continues to be written
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 circ*mstance has made it so we now have two copies of each book. We'd like for you to have one.
Rob Curley: Our interns are cooler than your interns (and probably a whole lot younger)
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.
Rob Curley: Dear reader – Here’s why it’s more expensive to subscribe to The Spokesman-Review (but still worth it)
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.
Gonzaga super fan finally gets up-close look at WCC tournament he never misses
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.
Rob Curley: Spokane and Las Vegas couldn’t be more different, yet both feel like home for Wynn exec
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.
Rob Curley: Las Vegas travel guide for the Zags fan who’s already done all the Sin City classics
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.
Rob Curley: Cooper Kupp takes his big win and heads to Disneyland, family in tow
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?”
