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The Spokesman-Review was formed from the merger of the Spokane Falls Review and the Spokesman in 1893, and first published under its current name on the 29th of June, 1894. The Spokane Falls Review had been founded in 1883.
The Spokesman-Review is owned by Cowles Company, which also owns KHQ-TV and The KHQ Television Group. In 2025, the Cowles family announced plans to donate the paper to the nonprofit Comma Community Journalism Laboratory.
During a visit to the region in 1948, President Harry Truman declared The Spokesman-Review one of the two worst newspapers in the nation, alongside the Chicago Tribune. The paper's opposition to the New Deal and the Fair Deal prompted the rebuke.
The Spokane Daily Chronicle was co-owned with The Spokesman-Review by the Cowles family from 1897 onward. The two papers merged their sports departments in late 1981 and their news staffs in early 1983, and the Chronicle's final edition was printed on Friday, the 31st of July, 1992.
Between 1997 and 2004, critics alleged the Cowles family profited by as much as $20 million from a public-private partnership involving the River Park Square parking garage. The Washington News Council conducted an independent review and found the paper at fault for news bias in its coverage of the issue.
According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, as reported on the 29th of April, 2010, the paper averaged a Sunday circulation of 95,939 and a weekly circulation of 76,291. That represented a year-over-year decrease of about 10.5 percent.