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The Daily Tar Heel is the student newspaper at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The nonprofit organization stopped taking student fees in 1993 and is fully funded by its advertising revenue, thus making it both fiscally and editorially independent. The student journalists are solely responsible for all content under the direction of the student editor-in-chief. The paper’s business operations are governed by its own board of directors. The paper circulates 18,000 free copies each publishing day during the regular academic year to 205 distribution locations throughout campus, Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Durham, making it the largest community newspaper in the area with an estimated readership of 38,000.It publishes weekly on Thursday during the summer. The editor-in-chief oversees the newsroom and is ultimately responsible for all content. She serves as the public face of the paper. The editor also hires the rest of the staff, which includes the managing editors, the opinion editor, the public editor and editors for each of the newsroom’s 14 desks. The editor is selected each April by an independent selection board generated for just that purpose. Seven full-time professionals are employed in non-editorial functions, and the student editor is vested with final authority over the content of the paper. At the height of the school year, there are some 80 paid part-time student employees in news, advertising, customer service and production functions and another 150 or more student volunteers. Need to find a DTH on near work, home or on your daily route? Call 962-1163 or send an e-mail to dth@unc.edu and we’ll tell you the best place to get your copy. Famous alumni Notable alumni include Charles Kuralt, Lou Harris, Jonathan Yardley, Peter Gammons, Cole Campbell, Peter Wallsten, Mary Junck, Thanasis Cambanis, Rolfe Neill, Hugh Stevens, Larry Keith, Thomas Wolfe, Walter Spearman, Susan Miller Fulton, Alan Murray, Edwin Yoder, Karen Jurgensen, Jonathan Daniels, Rob Nelson and many others. Awards The DTH is one of the most decorated college newspapers in the country, winning numerous Associated Collegiate Press Pacemakers and SPJ Mark of Excellence awards in addition to being recognized recently for four straight years as having the most outstanding business and advertising staff in the country.