Last week, I learned from a trade newsletter I subscribe to that Spokane’s daily newspaper, The Spokesman-Review, will be transferred to a non-profit.
It’s not being sold. Quite the opposite. The Cowles family, which owns the publication, is paying the non-profit, Comma Community Journalism Lab, $2 millionto take ownership of the paper on the condition that it raise $2 million in matching funds. The nonprofit was founded by Rob Curley, who happens to also…