Friday, October 24, 2025
Co-Hosted by Everett College & WSU Everett

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Keynote Speaker: Rob Curley

Dating back to the early days of the internet, Spokesman-Review editor Rob Curley has long been considered one of the newspaper industry’s biggest innovators. Through his times at some of the biggest newspapers in the nation, including The Washington Post and Orange County Register, to working at much smaller papers in his home state of Kansas – like the Lawrence Journal-World, Ottawa Herald and Topeka Capital-Journal – it’s Curley love of community journalism that drives him.

After building some of the most award-winning news sites on the internet, he has been featured on the cover of national magazines and even in an Apple commercial. Creativity Magazine named him one of the 50 Most Creative People in the World, and he is one of the only newspaper editors in the world to give “Tech Talks” to Google’s programmers on the web giant’s main campus in Silicon Valley.

Curley has once again become a highly sought-after speaker at both journalism and civic conferences across the country because of The Spokesman-Review’s ground-breaking events series, Northwest Passages. Often drawing crowds of more than 700 people, these events have made The Spokesman-Review a national leader in community engagement, local media literacy and philanthropic-funded journalism. Nearly 28 percent of the newspaper’s newsroom payroll is now funded directly by readers, local businesses and other regional organizations.

This commitment to community and unique funding approach has led to The Spokesman-Review being the smallest newspaper in the nation with a D.C. bureau, the smallest news organization in the world to send a reporter to Ukraine, and the only newspaper in the nation to offer a paid summer high school internship program, which has now grown to ten students a year.

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