Famed NW newspaper will be donated to nonprofit, family owners say

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Ups and downs in nonprofit news    Yesterday brought both hope and disappointment in the world of nonprofit news. First, the hope: The Cowles family of Washington state announced that it was donating The Spokesman-Review to a Spokane-based nonprofit organization, the Comma community journalism laboratory. Under the deal, Comma would raise an initial $2 million, then Cowles would match it. Poynter’s Rick Edmonds laid out the details, rationale an…

Spokesman-Review announces ownership change after 132 years

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A legacy newspaper in Spokane is changing ownership ending a 132-year run by the founding family.

Famed NW newspaper will be donated to nonprofit, family owners say

The Cowles family intends to donate The Spokesman-Review to a recently formed Spokane-based community nonprofit organization that plans to continue publishing the newspaper amid the changes and challenges roiling legacy media.The plan calls for Publisher Stacey Cowles and his family’s Cowles Co. to transfer ownership of the newspaper and award a $2 million matching grant to the nonprofit, called the Comma community journalism lab, which was foun…

Cowles Company to donate the Spokesman-Review and $2M to Comma, after a community match of $2M

Cowles Company – the multi-generational owner of The Spokesman-Review newspaper – will explore turning the newspaper into a nonprofit that partners with local school districts, regional universities and other nonprofit-based news organizations to advance the cause of local journalism, the…

Cowles family plans to donate The Spokesman-Review to local nonprofit

The Cowles family intends to donate The Spokesman-Review to a recently formed Spokane-based community nonprofit organization that plans to continue publishing the newspaper amid the changes and challenges roiling legacy media.

Cowles family to donate Spokesman-review to nonprofit

The Cowles family intends to donate The Spokesman-Review to a recently formed Spokane-based community nonprofit organization that plans to continue publishing the newspaper. Continue reading…