New editor in Spokane

Gary Graham, 59, will succeed Steven Smith as editor of the Spokesman-Review. Smith, as you'll remember, resigned last week in the face of major cutbacks at the paper.

Graham, whom I've had the pleasure of meeting and who is not a slash-and-burner, moves up from the managing editor position to lead a paper that will, in the end, have three-quarters of the editorial staff it has now.