The April 21, 2006, front page of The Daily Tar Heel.
Type	Campus daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	DTH Publishing Corp.
Publisher	DTH Publishing Corp.
Editor	Erin Zureick
Founded	1893
Headquarters	Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.
Website: www.dailytarheel.com

The Daily Tar Heel (commonly referred to as the 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. Image File history File links Daily_tar_heel_logo. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (350x638, 49 KB) Summary Friday April 21 cover of the Daily Tar Heel from Chapel Hill, N.C. Licensing This image is of a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (350x638, 49 KB) Summary Friday April 21 cover of the Daily Tar Heel from Chapel Hill, N.C. Licensing This image is of a scan of a newspaper page or article, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by... is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Newspaper sizes in August 2005. ... Year 1893 (MDCCCXCIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Nickname: Location in North Carolina Coordinates: , Country United States State North Carolina Counties Orange, Durham, and Chatham Founded 1793 Government  - Mayor Kevin C. Foy Area  - City  19. ... For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. ... Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. ... Official language(s) English Capital Raleigh Largest city Charlotte Area  Ranked 28th  - Total 53,865 sq mi (139,509 km²)  - Width 150 miles (240 km)  - Length 560[1] miles (901 km)  - % water 9. ...

History

Early history

The newspaper was first published on February 23, 1893, and was originally a four-page weekly tabloid called The Tar Heel. Funded by the campus Athletic Association, it placed much of its emphasis on campus sports and Greek life.

By 1920, the paper's size had increased to 6 pages, and editor Thomas Wolfe moved to a twice-a-week format. 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. Circulation quadrupled in less than a year, and by 1929, the paper published every day except Monday and changed its name to The Daily Tar Heel. Photo by Carl Van Vechten For the contemporary author and journalist, see Tom Wolfe Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an important American novelist of the 20th century. ...

During World War II, publication was scaled back to three times a week. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

Post-World War II

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." Page counts were increased thanks to secure campus funding, and the newspaper continued to grow as the University modernized in the 1950s and 1960s.

During the 1970s, student leaders tried to cut the DTH 's funding. After a lengthy court battle, the newspaper won certain concessions: (a) It would, every year, receive 16 percent of student activity fees, and (b) It was allowed to form a publishing board outside the auspices of student government, provided that student leaders were granted a number of seats on that board. However, the DTH also was required to have its budget approved each year by Student Congress, which caused further tension.

Seeking to avoid continued interference from student government -- and to settle a nagging tax question with the University -- the paper incorporated in 1989 as an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In 1993, it voluntarily stopped taking all money from student activity fees and became, for all intents and purposes, an independent publication with 100 percent control over all editorial and business decisions. That allowed the DTH to begin its current process of allowing a committee of staffers and community members to select the next editor; previously, the position had been filled in campuswide elections. The first editor selection occurred in 1994. 501(c) is a provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code (26 U.S.C. Â§ 501(c)), listing twenty-eight types of non-profit organizations exempt from some Federal income taxes. ...

Also in 1994, the DTH became one of the first student papers to publish online.

The DTH today

Front page of the first issue of the Tar Heel, which was later renamed to The Daily Tar Heel

Today, the Daily Tar Heel circulates 20,000 free copies throughout campus and in the surrounding community -- Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Durham. Its estimated readership of 39,000 makes it the largest community newspaper in Orange County. Revenues from advertising are self-generated. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (668x1014, 660 KB) First issue of the Daily Tar Heel available from North Carolina Archives http://www. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (668x1014, 660 KB) First issue of the Daily Tar Heel available from North Carolina Archives http://www. ... Nickname: Location in North Carolina Coordinates: , Country United States State North Carolina Counties Orange, Durham, and Chatham Founded 1793 Government  - Mayor Kevin C. Foy Area  - City  19. ... Carrboro is a town located in Orange County, North Carolina. ... Nickname: Location in North Carolina Country United States State North Carolina County Durham County Government  - Mayor Bill Bell Area  - City  94. ...

The paper employs six full-time, non-editorial professionals, about 75 paid part-time students, and more than 100 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; a board of directors serves as publisher and has final say over matters such as the newspaper's budget.

The paper focuses on campus news (including all varsity sports), but it also features a city desk that covers Orange County as well as a state and national desk that deals with items of interest to the campus community.

The current editor is UNC senior Joseph R. Schwartz. He will serve until May 2007, with rising senior Erin Zureick set to take over in August 2007. Junior Clint Johnson was the summer editor in 2007. He was forced to step down after, in one issue, he used the first letters of each paragraph in the page 7 stories to spell, "Pearl Jam eats my chode."

Accolades and awards

The DTH is frequently recognized as one of the best college newspapers in the country. The Associated Collegiate Press, for example, regularly rewards it with National Pacemaker Awards for excellence in college journalism; in 2005, the newspaper won Pacemakers for its 2004-05 print and online editions. The paper also has won numerous Mark of Excellence awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, and its advertising and business staff is often recognized as the best in the country by College Newspaper Business and Advertising Managers, Inc. The National Pacemaker Awards are awards for excellence in American student journalism, given annually since 1927. ... SPJ logo, taken from a cropped photo of a sign at the Region 10 SPJ Conference, March 2006 The Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ, formerly known as Sigma Delta Chi) is one of the oldest organizations representing journalists in the United States, debuting in 1909. ...

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, newswriting 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. Notably, twice in the last five years, the newspaper has placed third in the state in its coverage of higher education -- ahead of professional newspapers in education-rich areas such as Charlotte and Greensboro. Nickname: Location in Mecklenburg County in the state of North Carolina Coordinates: , Country United States State North Carolina Counties Mecklenburg County, North Carolina Government  - Mayor Pat McCrory, (R) Area  - City  280. ... Greensboro Skyline Greensboro redirects here. ...

Controversies

Like many campus publications, The Daily Tar Heel has gained a reputation for being unafraid to push buttons.

Most recently, in the 2005-06 school year, it published a column supporting 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." 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, with the DTH 's detractors calling them disrespectful and supporters calling them legitimate expressions of opinion. The column made national headlines and ultimately led to the columnist's dismissal, while the cartoon was a popular local-news item and prompted a few dozen protesters to stage sit-ins in the DTH newsroom. The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after twelve editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 2005-09-30. ...

Controversy, however, is not limited to one year in the DTH 's 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. Later, in the 1970s and 1980s, student editors used the paper's now-defunct front-page quote to agitate many on campus; selections included Nietzsche's "God is dead." In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the paper's editorial board often clashed with students who sought the erection of a freestanding black cultural center on campus. And in 2001, the paper sparked protests by publishing a column by conservative commentator David Horowitz, whose argument against reparations for slavery was seen by some on campus as racist. Charles Kuralt Charles Kuralt (10 September 1934 – 4 July 1997) was an award-winning American journalist whose long career with CBS made him famous as the motor home-traveling reporter whose chronicling of out-of-the-news American people and living made him as much of a household name as... Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. ... Friedrich Nietzsche, 1882 Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900) was a highly influential German philosopher. ... David Horowitz is an American conservative writer and activist. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Notable alumni

• Cole Campbell, former St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor
• Cate Doty, The New York Times
• Peter Gammons, ESPN sportswriter and broadcaster
• Karen Jurgensen, former USA Today editor
• Charles Kuralt, award-winning CBS journalist and author
• Walter Spearman, long-time UNC journalism professor
• Peter Wallsten, Los Angeles Times White House correspondent
• Thomas Wolfe, novelist
• Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post book columnist
• Edwin Yoder, syndicated columnist
• Thanassis Cambanis, middle-east bureau chief, Boston Globe
• Will Fonvielle, name can be rearranged to spell "elf vine ill owl"

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References

• Campus newspaper continues to evolve -- DTH article on the newspaper's 113th anniversary.
• A Brief History of "The Tar Heel"
• UNC student fired for 'malpractice' in column on Arabs
• UNC's student paper is the target of a sit-in

External links

• The Daily Tar Heel -- official site