The Daily Tar Heel

{{Short description|Student newspaper of UNC-Chapel Hill}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Daily Tar Heel | logo = frameless|class=skin-invert | image = 200px|border|Front page, April 21, 2006 | caption = Front page, April 21, 2006 | type = Student newspaper | format = | founded = February 23, 1893 | ceased_publication = | price = Free | owners = DTH Media Corp | publisher = DTH Media Corp | president = Grayson Elliott (2025–26)<ref>{{cite web|title=Board of Directors |url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/page/board-of-directors |website=Daily Tar Heel |publisher=DTH Media Corporation |access-date=April 9, 2026}}</ref> | chief_editor = Alli Pardue (2025–26)<ref name="Daily Tar Heel">{{cite web |url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/page/editors |title=Daily Tar Heel}}</ref> | managing_editor = Sarah Monoson, Emily Gessner (2025–26)<ref name="Daily Tar Heel"/> | language = English | political_position = | circulation = 10,000 | circulation_date = 2019 | circulation_ref = <ref name="about" /> | headquarters = Chapel Hill, North Carolina | publishing_country = United States | sister_newspapers = | oclc = | ISSN = 1070-9436 | website = {{URL|https://www.dailytarheel.com|dailytarheel.com}} }}

'''''The Daily Tar Heel''''' ('''''DTH''''') is the independent student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While focusing on university news and sports, it also includes heavy coverage of Orange County and North Carolina. All editorial content is overseen by student editors and a volunteer student staff of about 230 people.<ref name="About - The Daily Tar Heel"/>

==Circulation and organization== ''The Daily Tar Heel'' circulates 10,000 free copies to more than 225 distribution locations throughout campus and in surrounding communities -- Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Chatham, and Durham.<ref name="about">[http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/page/about About us], DTH Media, Retrieved 2011-02-03.</ref> Dailytarheel.com draws an average of 11,400 unique visitors per school day. Revenues from advertising are self-generated through a student-run advertising staff.

Originally a daily publication, in 2016 the paper moved from five days a week in print to four, cutting the Tuesday edition.<ref name="O'Donovan">{{Cite web|url=https://medium.com/now-what-next/necessity-invention-and-the-daily-tar-heel-65d1c306c188|title=Necessity, invention and The Daily Tar Heel|last=O'Donovan|first=Betsy|date=2016-08-23|website=Now What Next|access-date=2017-12-07}}</ref> In 2017, the paper further reduced print output to Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.<ref name="About - The Daily Tar Heel">{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailytarheel.com/page/about|title=About - The Daily Tar Heel|website=The Daily Tar Heel|access-date=2017-12-07}}</ref> In 2021, the paper began to print only on Wednesdays.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About The Daily Tar Heel |url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/page/about |access-date=2023-02-24 |website=The Daily Tar Heel}}</ref>

Student journalists are solely responsible for all content under the direction of the student editor-in-chief. The 2025-2026 editor-in-chief is Alli Pardue.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet the Editors |url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/page/4c5a9d8e-9f25-4ca0-bbb9-d51c3c70b887 |website=The Daily Tar Heel}}</ref> A new editor is selected each spring and serves for one year. The editor-in-chief, who has full control over editorial content, 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 section desks. The paper employs two full-time professionals, about 80 paid part-time students, and more than 150 student volunteer writers.<ref name="about" /> Business matters are overseen by a full-time, professional general manager, Erica Perel; a board of directors serves as publisher and has final say over matters such as the newspaper's budget.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2018/01/erica-gm-0110|title=Former newsroom adviser Erica Perel named general manager of the Daily Tar Heel}}</ref>

==History== ===Early history=== 200px|thumbnail|Front page of the first issue of ''The Tar Heel'', later renamed to ''The Daily Tar Heel'' 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."<ref name="Daily Tar Heel celebrates 114 years">[http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2007/02/dth_celebrates_114_years Daily Tar Heel celebrates 114 years], DTH Media. Retrieved 2011-02-03.</ref> Funded by the campus athletic association, it placed much of its emphasis on campus sports and Greek life and boasted of 250 subscribers.<ref name="Daily Tar Heel celebrates 114 years" />

By 1920, the paper's size had increased to six pages, and under editor Thomas Wolfe, the paper moved to a twice-a-week format that September.<ref name="history">[http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/page/history History of the Daily Tar Heel], DTH Media. Retrieved 2011-02-03.</ref> In 1923, it came out from under the auspices of the athletic association and became governed by the Student Publications Union Board, which was then in charge of all campus publications. Students paid a fee of $5.50 to fund the publications.<ref name="history" /> Publication increased to three days a week in 1925, and the first summer edition was printed in 1927.<ref name="history" /> In 1929, by a 666 to 128 vote, the student body voted in favor of increasing funding to the ''Tar Heel''.<ref name="history" /> This enabled the paper, then led by editor Walter Spearman, to publish six times a week.<ref name="Hudson">[http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2006/02/campus_newspaper_continues_to_evolve Campus newspaper continues to evolve], DTH Media. Retrieved 2011-02-03.</ref> Consequently, the paper changed its name to ''The Daily Tar Heel''.

In 1943, the paper scaled back publication to twice weekly.<ref name="history" /> In 1946, ''The Daily Tar Heel'' returned to daily publication with the goal of becoming, in the words of student editors, "the greatest college newspaper in the world."<ref name="history" />

The famous broadcaster Charles Kuralt, who was ''DTH'' editor in 1954, wrote in his book ''A Life on the Road'' of being called "a pawn of the Communists" on the floor of the state legislature after the newspaper published a spoof edition critical of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. The student legislature formed a committee in 1955 to "investigate quality and circulation problems at the DTH."<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bass|first1=Neil|title=DTH to be investigated by student legislature group|url=http://newspapers.digitalnc.org/lccn/sn92073228/1955-03-04/ed-1/seq-1/|access-date=21 September 2017|work=The Daily Tar Heel|date=March 4, 1955}}</ref>

===Independence=== In the 1970s and 1980s, student editors used the paper's front-page quote to agitate many on campus; selections included Nietzsche's "God is dead."<ref name="Hudson" /> The paper's use of student fees was called into question in July 1972, when four students filed suit against the paper.<ref name="renamed_from_1972_on_20110205161706">[http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/thi/dth.html Tar Heel Link], UNC Libraries, Retrieved 2011-02-03.</ref> The students objected to the use of student fees used to publish articles they did not agree with. The ''DTH'' collected donations to pay for its legal defense, and ultimately won an assurance of at least 16 percent of all student fees in 1977.<ref name="history" /> An independent publishing board was also established, though the paper's budget remained tied to the Student Congress for yearly approval.

In 1989, the ''DTH'' incorporated as a separate educational 501(c)(3) non-profit entity.<ref name="history" /> The paper voluntarily stopped taking student fee money in 1993, making it completely financially independent from the university for the first time.<ref name="history" /> That allowed the ''DTH'' to begin its current process of allowing an 11-member committee of staffers and community members to select the next editor.<ref name="about" /> Previously, the position had been filled in campuswide elections. Peter Wallsten was the last ''DTH'' editor selected by campuswide elections.<ref name="Daily Tar Heel celebrates 114 years" />

===Recent history and relocations=== thumb|The 2010-2017 ''DTH'' office. On November 19, 1994, the ''DTH'' became one of the first newspapers of any kind to publish an online edition.<ref name="history" /> After 1,500 copies of the ''Carolina Review'' were stolen in 1996, the ''DTH'' fought for access to the accused students' Honor Court hearings.<ref name="honorcourt">[http://www.aoc.state.nc.us/www/public/coa/opinions/1998/970305-1.htm The Daily Tar Heel v. The University of North Carolina and the UNC-CH Undergraduate Court] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720103819/http://www.aoc.state.nc.us/www/public/coa/opinions/1998/970305-1.htm |date=2011-07-20 }} Retrieved 2011-02-03</ref> The state Supreme Court's 1998 ruling established the Honor Court as a public body.<ref name="honorcourt" />

During the summer of 2010, the newsroom moved out of the student union and into a {{convert|6,489|sqft|m2|adj=on}} office a block away from campus, at 151 E. Rosemary Street.<ref name="dailytarheel">[http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2010/06/dth_departs_for_downtown Daily Tar Heel departs for downtown] DTH Media, Retrieved 2011-02-03.</ref> The move doubled the amount of office space available to staff and placed the paper one-tenth of a mile away from its original 1893 office.<ref name="dailytarheel" /> Previously, the staff worked out of the Frank Porter Graham Student Union and paid rent to the university.

In October 2010, ''The Daily Tar Heel'' joined a coalition of eight media organizations in a lawsuit against UNC for public records.<ref name="2010lawsuit">[http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2010/10/media_organizations_file_suit_against_unc_officials Media organizations file suit against UNC officials] DTH Media, Retrieved 2011-02-03</ref> The lawsuit concerned records related to UNC's investigation into alleged improper relationships with athletic agents and academic misconduct surrounding the football team. In September 2016, the paper filed suit against UNC to obtain access to public records concerning the identification of students or employees who had committed rape or sexual assault.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2017/05/the-daily-tar-heel-receives-public-records-ruling|title=The Daily Tar Heel receives public records ruling|work=The Daily Tar Heel|access-date=2017-12-08}}</ref> The ''DTH'' filed the lawsuit on behalf of itself, the Capital Broadcasting Company, the Charlotte Observer Publishing Company, and The Durham Herald Company. On May 3, 2017, Judge Allen Baddour, a Superior Court Judge in Wake and Orange County, ruled that UNC was not required to provide those public records due to Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act and the State Human Resources Act, which protects students and employees, respectively.

In conjuncture with its financial challenges, in February 2018 the ''DTH'' newsroom moved from the large Rosemary Street office to a smaller, more consolidated space at 210 E. Franklin Street in Suite 210. Though the move has strong ties to the fiscal state of ''The Daily Tar Heel'', their newer office is closer to UNC's central campus, and is in the midst of action on Franklin Street.

The ''DTH''<nowiki/>'s front page following a shooting on campus in August 2023 was widely praised.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Castillo |first=Amaris |date=2023-08-30 |title=How The Daily Tar Heel designed the front page everyone is talking about |url=https://www.poynter.org/educators-students/2023/the-daily-tar-heel-front-page-newspaper-campus-shooting/ |access-date=2023-08-31 |website= |publisher=Poynter Institute |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Financial troubles == Since 2011, ''The Daily Tar Heel'' has been losing money. In recent years, the newspaper has had an annual deficit of about $200,000.<ref name="O'Donovan"/> Betsy Donovan, general manager of ''The Daily Tar Heel'', cited changes in the industry, specifically the decline in print advertising, for the organization's financial situation. In a ''Medium'' essay in August 2016, she wrote that the ''Tar Heel'' has two years to "figure out its finances."

To create more revenue, Donovan launched The 1893 Brand Studio, an in-house agency for services and creative consulting, in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.poynter.org/news/inside-8-month-reinvention-unprofitable-college-newspaper|title=Inside the 8-month reinvention of an unprofitable college newspaper|website=Poynter|date=4 April 2017|language=en|access-date=2017-12-07}}</ref> ''The Tar Heel'' has also cut the number of days in print to three. In March 2017, Donovan said the University of North Carolina's 2017 men's basketball national championship reduced the ''Tar Heel''{{'}}s deficit from about $100,000 to less than $50,000 for the fiscal year. The organization's annual revenue at the time was just under $900,000 per year.

==Tradition== The ''DTH'' has a long-standing bet with editors of ''The Chronicle'', Duke University's student newspaper. When the two schools' men's basketball teams first play, the losing school's paper must run its masthead in the other school's color. The losing school's paper must also place the winning school's logo on their editorial page and declare the winning school is "still the best" on the front page.<ref name="wikipedia">Carolina-Duke rivalry</ref>

==Controversies== ===2005 column and cartoon=== The paper published a column in 2005 by student Jillian Bandes that supported the racial profiling of Arabs at airports — a piece that began with the line, "I want all Arabs to be stripped naked and cavity-searched if they get within 100 yards of an airport.".<ref name="bandes">[https://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-09-16-UNC-columnist_x.htm UNC student fired for 'malpractice' in column on Arabs] USA Today, Retrieved 2011-02-03</ref> The column made national headlines and ultimately led to the columnist's dismissal, but officially only for her quoting a source in a manner considered out-of-context.<ref name="bandes" /> A few months later, in the midst of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, it published a cartoon depicting the Prophet appearing to decry both sides in the debate. Both pieces sparked loud debate on campus. The cartoon was a popular local-news item and prompted a few dozen protesters to stage sit-ins in the ''DTH'' newsroom.<ref name="nando">[http://www.newsobserver.com/2006/02/21/63314/uncs-student-paper-is-the-target.html UNC's student paper is the target of sit-in] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120512170829/http://www.newsobserver.com/2006/02/21/63314/uncs-student-paper-is-the-target.html |date=2012-05-12 }} The (Raleigh) News & Observer, Retrieved 2011-02-03</ref>

===2026 satirical edition=== In April 2026, campus organizations and students condemned the ''DTH'' over several spoof articles in its annual April Fool's Day satirical edition.<ref name="satire_outrage">{{cite news |last=Sartwell |first=Jane Winik |date=April 2, 2026 |title=UNC student newspaper's April Fools' satire sparks outrage on campus |url=https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article315278530.html |work=News and Observer |access-date=April 2, 2026}}</ref> One particularly controversial piece by columnist Drew Sherrod attempted to satirize the Trump administration's frequent deployments of ICE agents; the article discussed their purported assignment to Chapel Hill to replace state alcohol law enforcement.<ref>{{cite news |last=Sherrod |first=Drew |date=April 1, 2026 |title=Trump orders ALE in Chapel Hill to be replaced with ICE agents |url=https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/opinion-satire-franklin-street-night-life-ice-20260401 |work=The Daily Tar Heel|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260401181246/https://www.dailytarheel.com/article/opinion-satire-franklin-street-night-life-ice-20260401 |archive-date=April 1, 2026 |access-date=April 2, 2026}}</ref><ref name="satire_outrage"/> Another, published under the byline of the editorial board, parodied the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the military–industrial complex by discussing the supposed construction of a new basketball arena as part of a "two-stadium solution," with the new arena to be named the "Iron Dean Dome."<ref>{{cite news |date=April 1, 2026 |title=Satire: The new plan for the Dean Dome — a two-stadium solution |url=https://dailytarheel.com/article/opinion-editorial-satire-iron-dean-dome-20260401 |work=The Daily Tar Heel|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260401231832/https://dailytarheel.com/article/opinion-editorial-satire-iron-dean-dome-20260401|archive-date=April 1, 2026 |access-date=April 3, 2026}}</ref> As a mailing list had not initially identified the spoof articles as satirical, various students initially took the writings seriously, and felt their content to be very offensive.<ref name="satire_outrage"/>

The ''DTH'' initially responded by removing selected satirical articles, including those covering the "ICE deployment" and the supposed arena construction. The paper also issued a limited statement acknowledging it had been insensitive and had "caused real harm to the very communities we work to uplift and platform."<ref name="satire_outrage"/> According to editor-in-chief Alli Pardue, the publication's DEI coordinator, who reviewed articles on sensitive subjects, had not been made aware of some of the pieces being prepared before they went to press.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Haylee |date=April 2, 2026 |title=‘It felt mean’: April Fool’s Day joke backfires on UNC’s Daily Tar Heel |url=https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/orange-county-news/it-felt-mean-april-fools-day-joke-backfires-on-unc-daily-tar-heel/ |work=CBS 17 |location= |publisher=WNCN |access-date=April 2, 2026}}</ref> Journalist and academic Meredith Clark, a UNC alum and professor in the university's journalism school, observed that satirizing political matter "is very difficult to do, and it's even more difficult to do well.” Clark noted the failure of the ''DTH'' satirical edition lay in not recognizing the "difference in being knowledgeable about a state of affairs and then being empathetic to the people who are connected to it quite directly."<ref name="satire_outrage"/>

==Accolades and awards== The ''DTH'' was named the best college newspaper by ''The Princeton Review'' in 2007 and 2011 and appeared in the list's top 5 in 2010, 2012, and 2013.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.collegemediamatters.com/2011/08/03/princeton-review-best-college-newspapers-2011-list/|title=Princeton Review Best College Newspapers: 2011 List|date=2011-08-03|work=College Media Matters|access-date=2017-12-08|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://collegemediamatters.com/2010/08/03/princeton-review-names-best-college-newspapers/|title=Princeton Review Names Best College Newspapers|date=2010-08-04|work=College Media Matters|access-date=2017-12-08|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.collegemediamatters.com/2012/08/21/princeton-review-best-college-newspapers-2012-list/|title=Princeton Review Best College Newspapers: 2012 List|date=2012-08-21|work=College Media Matters|access-date=2017-12-08|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.collegemediamatters.com/2013/08/06/best-college-newspapers-2013-ranking-released-by-princeton-review/|title=Best College Newspapers: 2013 Ranking Released by Princeton Review|date=2013-08-06|work=College Media Matters|access-date=2017-12-08|language=en-US}}</ref> Additionally, ''The Daily Tar Heel'' has won many awards over the years at the national level. Listed below are some of the prominent honors the ''DTH'' has received. Years noted represent the previous school year, unless otherwise noted.

'''Associated Collegiate Press – National Pacemaker Awards''' * Newspaper Pacemaker ** Winner: 1996, 1998, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2008, 2013, 2015, 2016, 2017<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/1996-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 1996 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/1998-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 1998 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2001-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2001 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2003-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2003 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2005-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2005 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2008-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2008 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2013-newspaper-pacemaker/|title=ACP - 2013 Newspaper Pacemaker|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2015-newspaper-pacemaker-2/|title=ACP - 2015 Newspaper Pacemaker|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/newspaper2016/|title=ACP - 2016 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2017-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2017 Newspaper Pacemakers|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> ** Finalist: 1994, 2000, 2004, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2012<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/1994-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 1994 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2000-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2000 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2004-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2004 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2006-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2006 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2010-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2010 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2011-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2011 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2012-newspaper-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2012 Newspaper Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> * Online Pacemaker ** Winner: 2005, 2012, 2013, 2014<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2005-online-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2005 Online Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2012-online-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2012 Online Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2013-online-pacemaker/|title=ACP - 2013 Online Pacemaker|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2014-online-pacemaker/|title=ACP - 2014 Online Pacemaker|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> ** Finalist: 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2016<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2006-online-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2006 Online Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2007-online-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2007 Online Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2009-online-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2009 Online Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2010-online-pacemaker-winners/|title=ACP - 2010 Online Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/online16/|title=ACP - 2016 Online Pacemaker Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> * Reporter of the Year ** Winner: 2013<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2013-reporter-of-the-year/|title=ACP - 2013 Reporter of the Year|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> ** Honorable Mention: 2017<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2017-reporter-of-the-year-winners/|title=ACP - 2017 Reporter of the Year Winners|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> * Story of the Year ** Winner: 2013 (Sports), 2016 (Editorial/Opinion), 2017 (Feature and Sports)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2013-story-of-the-year/|title=ACP - 2013 Story of the Year|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://studentpress.org/acp/awards/2016soy/|title=ACP - 2016 Story of the Year|website=studentpress.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> '''Society of Professional Journalists – National Mark of Excellence Awards''' * Sports Writing ** Finalist: 2002<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spj.org/moe02.asp|title=Mark of Excellence Awards - Society of Professional Journalists|website=www.spj.org|access-date=2017-12-11}}</ref> * Best all-around daily student newspaper ** Finalist: 2009<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spj.org/moe09.asp|title=Mark of Excellence Awards - Society of Professional Journalists|website=www.spj.org|access-date=2017-12-11|archive-date=November 6, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181106004726/https://www.spj.org/moe09.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> The ''DTH'' staff also wins awards in competitions against professional newspapers in North Carolina. Since 2001, the newspaper has won more than a half-dozen awards from the North Carolina Press Association for its photography, news writing, and design. It has also won more than two dozen first-place advertising awards in its division, which comprises paid dailies with circulations between 15,000 and 34,999.

In February 2011, the paper was awarded the second place NCPA general excellence award for its division, becoming the first college paper in the state to earn a general excellence award.<ref name="ncpa">[http://ncpress.com/10edawardsonline/GE.html 2011 North Carolina Press Association General Excellence Awards] North Carolina Press Association, Retrieved 2011-02-18</ref> The paper also placed first in the state for its higher education coverage.<ref name="dukerossiter">[http://ncpress.com/10edawardsonline/duke.html ''Daily Tar Heel Wins Annual Award For Coverage Of N.C. Higher Ed'', Duke University, Retrieved 2011-02-18]</ref>

==Notable alumni== * Cole Campbell, former ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' editor * Howie Carr, talk radio host at WRKO in Boston and various affiliates; columnist with the ''Boston Herald''<ref name="Wellesley Weston">{{cite web|last=Hansmire|first=Suzanne|title=An interview with Howie Carr|url=http://www.wellesleywestonmagazine.com/fall06/carr.htm|work=Wellesley Weston|access-date=February 15, 2012|date=Fall 2006}}</ref> * W. Horace Carter, Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on the Ku Klux Klan * Jonathan W. Daniels, author and White House Press Secretary for Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman * Peter Gammons, ESPN sportswriter and broadcaster * Gail Godwin, novelist and short story writer who wrote a column called "Carolina Carrousel" while a student at UNC * Louis Harris, journalist who established the Harris Poll * Mary Junck, president, CEO and chairman of Lee Enterprises, which publishes 54 daily newspapers * Wayne King, Pulitzer Prize winner, Detroit Free Press and former writer for ''The New York Times'' * Charles Kuralt, award-winning CBS journalist and author * Rob Nelson, co-anchor of ABC's ''World News Now'' and ''America This Morning'' * Robyn Tomlin, managing editor of the Dallas Morning News<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dallasnews.com/business/business/2015/09/03/the-dallas-morning-news-names-robyn-tomlin-as-managing-editor|title=The Dallas Morning News names Robyn Tomlin as managing editor|date=3 September 2015}}</ref> * William Woestendiek, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and journalist * Thomas Wolfe, novelist and playwright * Jonathan Yardley, ''Washington Post'' book columnist * Edwin Yoder, syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner

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==External links== {{commons category}} * [http://www.dailytarheel.com ''Daily Tar Heel'' website] * [https://www.scribd.com/thedailytarheel ''Daily Tar Heel'' PDF issues from 2009-2017] *[http://www.digitalnc.org/newspapers/daily-tar-heel-chapel-hill-n-c/ ''Daily Tar Heel'' issues from 1893-2008] * [http://www.lib.unc.edu/dth/ ''Daily Tar Heel'' headline archive]

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