Minnesota Daily - Notable Alumni

Notable Alumni

• Alan Bjerga, 2010 president of the National Press Club
• Brian J. Coyle, an American community leader, elected official, and gay activist and writer for the Minnesota Daily in the 1960s
• Keith Maurice Ellison, an American lawyer, politician, and a Democrat member of Congress. While a law student in 1989 and 1990, Ellison wrote several columns as Keith E. Hakim in the Minnesota Daily
• Dick Guindon, American cartoonist best known for his gag panel, Guindon and cartoonist at the Minnesota Daily
• Robert E. Hillard founder of the public relations agency Fleishman-Hillard in St. Louis, Missouri and editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Daily from 1938–39
• James Lileks, an American journalist, columnist, and blogger and columnist at the Minnesota daily who wrote under the pen name "James r. Lileks"
• Maud Hart Lovelace, American author best known for the Betsy-Tacy series and former employee of the Minnesota Daily
• Jack Ohman, an American editorial cartoonist and employee for the Minnesota Daily
• Joe Roche, Iraq War veteran and political commentator who wrote a column for the Minnesota Daily in the 1990s
• Steve Sack, an American cartoonist who draws the cartoon activity panel Doodles and is an award-winning editorial cartoonist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He illustrated features and drew editorial cartoons at the Minnesota Daily
• Eric Sevareid, a CBS journalist who was denied the editor-in-chief spot at the Minnesota Daily by university administration following a controversial column in 1934
• Hugh Smith, news anchor at WTVT in Tampa, Florida from 1963 to 1991 and editor-in-chief of the Minnesota Daily during the 1955-56 academic year.
• Ka Vang Hmong playwright, fiction writer and poet and reporter at the Minnesota Daily
• William Wade, American war correspondent during World War II and copy desk chief at the Minnesota Daily from 1936–1939
• Roy Wilkins, a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s and one time journalist at the Minnesota Daily