Alumni
The paper's most famous ex-employee is former Monday Night Football sportscaster and ASU alumnus Al Michaels, who covered football and basketball as the paper's assistant sports editor in the fall of 1963 and became sports editor in 1964. Michaels is rumored to have been fired for reasons unknown.
Cartoonist Tony Carrillo began drawing his F Minus comic strip for The State Press while he was a student at ASU. The single-panel comic initially ran in The State Press for four semesters and is now syndicated, appearing in more than 100 newspapers – including The State Press. Carrillo also painted the city skyline mural in the underground window well in The State Press' Tempe newsroom.
Other notable State Pressers include:
- Jerry Dumas, a comic strip writer and artist
- Kris Mayes, the chair of the Arizona Corporation Commission
- Len Munsil, who ran for governor of Arizona in 2006.
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