The Daily Tar Heel
Front page, April 21, 2006
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| Type | Daily campus newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | DTH Media Corp |
| Publisher | DTH Media Corp |
| Editor | Jane Wester |
| Managing editors | Hannah Smoot, Danny Nett, José Valle, Sarah Vassello |
| Founded | February 23, 1893 |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
| Circulation | 38,000 |
| ISSN | 1070-9436 |
| Website | www.dailytarheel.com |
The Daily Tar Heel (DTH) is the independent student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was founded on February 23, 1893, and became a daily newspaper in 1929. The paper places a focus on university news and sports, but it also includes heavy coverage of Orange County and North Carolina. It is published five days a week during the school year and weekly during the university's two summer school sessions. All editorial content is overseen by student editors and a volunteer student staff of about 250 people. It is the largest news organization in Orange County.
The Daily Tar Heel circulates 18,000 free copies to more than 200 distribution locations throughout campus and in the surrounding community -- Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Durham. Its estimated print readership of 38,000 makes it the largest community newspaper in Orange County. Revenues from advertising are self-generated through a student-run advertising staff.
The student journalists are solely responsible for all content under the direction of the student editor-in-chief. The 2016-17 editor is Jane Wester. A new editor is selected each spring and serves for one year. The editor is the public face of the paper and hires the rest of the editorial staff, which includes a managing editor and editors for each of the newsroom's sections desk.
The paper employs seven full-time professionals, about 75 paid part-time students, and more than 150 student volunteer writers. The student editor has full control over the editorial content of the paper. Business matters are overseen by a full-time, professional general manager, Betsy O'Donovan; a board of directors serves as publisher and has final say over matters such as the newspaper's budget.
The newspaper was first published on February 23, 1893 as a four-page weekly tabloid called The Tar Heel. It aimed to promote "the thorough discussion of all points pertaining to the advancement and growth of the University." Funded by the campus athletic association, it placed much of its emphasis on campus sports and Greek life and boasted of 250 subscribers.
By 1920, the paper's size had increased to 6 pages, and under editor Thomas Wolfe the paper moved to a twice-a-week format in September 1920. In 1923, it came out from under the auspices of the athletic association and became governed by the Student Publications Union Board, which at the time was in charge of all campus publications. Students paid a fee of $5.50 to fund the publications. Publication increased to three days in 1925 and published the first summer edition in 1927. The student body voted in favor of increasing funding to the DTH in 1929 in a vote of 666 to 128. The vote enabled the paper, then led by editor Walter Spearman, to publish six times a week. The paper changed its name to The Daily Tar Heel.
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