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Senior editor submits resignation

Staff reports
October 3, 2008

Carla Savalli, The Spokesman-Review’s assistant managing editor for local news, submitted her resignation Thursday.

The move comes a day after the news company announced significant newsroom layoffs and its editor, Steven A. Smith, announced his resignation.

“It seems like the right time in this volatile industry for me to make a personal change, although it will be very hard to leave,” Savalli said.

“As a Spokane native, I grew up with The Spokesman-Review and never wanted to be anything other than a journalist. I’m proud of the work we’ve done here and I know that those who remain will continue to work on behalf of readers, because there’s nothing more important.”

Savalli was instrumental in The Spokesman-Review’s Our Kids: Our Business project to illuminate issues of child abuse and neglect in the community, and authored a report on the future of the news business that was widely read in the industry.

Jim Camden, a long-time Spokesman-Review reporter, said, “Carla has a special combination that made her invaluable to this newspaper, no matter what role she was in. She knows Spokane and she loves Spokane, and those two things always came through in the stories she assigned, the projects she took on and the reporters she nurtured and supported.”

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