Short answers, pulled from the story.
The first issue of The Spokesman-Review appeared on the 29th of June 1894. This publication emerged from a merger between two earlier papers: the Spokane Falls Review and The Spokesman.
W.H. Cowles acquired ownership of both predecessor newspapers in 1897. His son William H. Cowles Jr. took over as publisher when W.H. Cowles died in 1946.
President Harry Truman declared The Spokesman-Review one of the two worst newspapers in the nation due to its opposition to the New Deal and Fair Deal programs. He named it alongside the Chicago Tribune during his visit to Spokane that year.
Average Sunday circulation totaled 95,939 copies according to data reported by the Puget Sound Business Journal on the 29th of April 2010. Weekly circulation averaged 76,291 during that same period representing a year-over-year decrease of about 10.5 percent.
The Cowles family announced in 2025 that they would donate The Spokesman-Review to the nonprofit Comma Community Journalism Laboratory. Hagadone Media Group of Coeur d'Alene agreed to print the newspaper shortly after this announcement.