Currently it is aired throughout metropolitan Phoenix on Cox Communications. Eric Gormly serves currently as the professor of record and faculty adviser to the program. Professors Craig Allen and Jim Dove also provide support as advisers. Application to the course is competitive. The course is designed to polish the skills of students to a professional level and provide them with the audition material that is of paramount importance in a job search.
Reporters also shoot and edit stories.
They are expected to develop a sense of how to enterprise and research a story, develop sources and find documents. The studio production crew consists of a technical director, floor director, camera operators, graphics operators, audio operators and tape operators. The 18,000-circulation State Press is the morning daily at Arizona State University. All students who work on the paper are paid. More than 40 are employed each semester in the editorial department.