"Carla Savalli, a former assistant managing editor who left the Spokesman-Review in Spokane in October, says her time away from the newsroom has upended the way she views the daily newspaper. 'They are essentially outdated and irrelevant by the time they’re delivered. If given another chance, I’d never edit a paper the same way again,' Savalli told me recently. The discovery, she said, is 'startling. It’s not a comfortable revelation at first.'"