Editor’s Note: This story has been updated to include a statement from the Spokane Editorial Society, a union for the Spokesman-Review’s newsroom and editorial staff.
Rob Curley, the long-time executive editor of the Spokesman-Review, has been placed on administrative leave following the paper’s comprehensive coverage of the Spokane Complex wildfires.
The newspaper has commissioned an independent investigation into his conduct, according to Bill Simer, the board chair of the Comma Community Journalism Lab, which Curley established to help convert for-profit news outlets into nonprofits…