On April 1, 1977 a seven-member board of students, faculty and community members was established to oversee the Daily Tar Heel's finances and non-editorial policies, and the paper described itself as published by the board. On July 7, 1989 the board voted to begin incorporating the paper as a North Carolina nonprofit and to seek tax-exempt status, because the University would not state in writing that the paper fell under its tax exemption. General manager Kevin Schwartz expected incorporation by spring 1990, and the paper planned to give up its share of student fees between 1991 and 1993.
On February 11, 1992 students voted 752 to 417 to replace the campus-wide election of the editor, held for 68 years according to DTH board president Ruffin Hall, with selection by a committee of three staff members and eight at-large students. The paper, supported by student fees from 1974, lived on advertising alone from May 1993. On February 8, 1994 students voted 2,729 to 663 to end the right of the student body president, the Student Congress speaker and its finance committee to appoint members of the paper's board, on a referendum the paper put on the ballot by petition after the congress refused it; editor Yi-Hsin Chang called it the last step in its independence. In the February 15 run-off students passed, 1,637 to 1,329, a congress member's referendum barring the paper from ever receiving student fees, and Chang said the paper would look into whether the ban was constitutional.
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Print news and raise hell: the Daily Tar Heel and the evolution of a modern university
Zogry, Kenneth Joel · 2018
Kenneth Joel Zogry's history of the Daily Tar Heel, the UNC Chapel Hill student newspaper, published by UNC Press in 2018, 361 pages with illustrations, online edition. Zogry follows the paper from its 1893 start as organ of the Athletic Association through the eras his chapter titles name: 'Crack-brained professors and baby radicals' (1923 to 1941), 'The truth in eight-point type' (1941 to 1959) and 'A free press must prevail' (1971 to 1993).
Reviewed in The Southeastern Librarian (2018), American Journalism (2019), Journal of American History (2019), The Journal of Southern History (2019).
Toward a conservative campus : a textual analysis of news coverage in the Carolina critic, the Carolina review, and the Daily tar heel since 1987
Sopp, Brian · 2007
Brian Sopp's 2007 textual analysis of news coverage in three Chapel Hill student publications, the Carolina Critic, the Carolina Review and the Daily Tar Heel, from 1987 onward. It concerns college student newspapers and periodicals in Chapel Hill. A piece of student research rather than a trade book, useful to anyone studying campus journalism and student politics at the university.
100th anniversary.
1993
Centennial edition of the Daily Tar Heel, the University of North Carolina student newspaper, produced at Chapel Hill in 1993 to mark one hundred years of publication. Jen Pilla is named as centennial edition editor. Topics include the paper's history along with college student newspapers and periodicals in Chapel Hill, which makes the issue a source for the paper's own record.
The rightish : the conservative editorial p(l)ag(u)e of the Tar Heel.
1984 · U.N.C. Committee to Liberate the Tar Heel
Conservative sheet aimed squarely at the campus daily, published in Chapel Hill from 1984 by a group calling itself the U.N.C. Committee to Liberate the Tar Heel, whose subtitle turns editorial page into editorial plague. Volumes measure 28 to 36 cm, and student political activity at the University of North Carolina runs through it.
Wider background: News, Journalism & Broadcasting · the most widely held histories of the theme this storyline is filed under; they may not discuss it
Making News
Bowers, Thomas A. · 2009
Thomas A. Bowers's history of a century of journalism and mass communication teaching at the University of North Carolina, published by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in 2009. It runs 282 pages with illustrations and portraits.
A village voice : collected columns from the Chapel Hill news
Seymour, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1925-2020 · 2003 · Chapel Hill Press
Robert E. Seymour's columns for the Chapel Hill News, gathered into a 192-page book by Chapel Hill Press in 2003. The short pieces offer anecdotes and reflections on Chapel Hill history, local manners and customs, and North Carolina life. Seymour (1925 to 2020) was the longtime pastor of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church.
The first 25 years : WCHL 1360
1978 · WCHL?
Anniversary booklet for the first twenty-five years of WCHL, the Chapel Hill radio station at 1360 on the AM dial, published in 1978. Topics include radio broadcasting and Chapel Hill history, with advertisements included. 20 unnumbered pages with illustrations and portraits.
Celebrating 50 years on the air and 50 who made a difference : WCHL 1360
2003
Anniversary booklet marking fifty years of WCHL 1360, the Chapel Hill radio station, with profiles of fifty people from Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Published in 2003, 36 pages with portraits. Contributors include Roland Giduz, Jim Heavner, Jonathan Howes, Neil Offen and Rosemary Waldorf.
The origins of journalism education at UNC-Chapel Hill
Bowers, Thomas A., 1942- · 2009
Thomas A. Bowers gave this talk on the beginnings of journalism teaching at the University of North Carolina on October 15, 2009 in Wilson Library, part of the Gladys Hall Coates university history lecture series. It was printed the same year.
Goodbye Howell Hall.
Simpson, Richard Hunter · 1999 · R.H. Simpson
Richard Hunter Simpson filmed this seven minute farewell to Howell Hall in 1999. The film concerns the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communication, its buildings and its history, and the teaching of journalism in Chapel Hill. One videocassette, color with black and white sequences.
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1360 WCHL : commemorating forty years of excellence
1993 · Village Sports, Inc.
An illustrated volume, with portraits, published by Village Sports in 1993 to mark forty years of WCHL, Chapel Hill's radio station at 1360 on the dial. Its writers were Jim Heavner, Roland Giduz, Jim Shumaker, Zora Rashkis, Dan Dunlop, George McCall, Lee Pace, Beth Tatum and Larry Stone.
NBC Nightly News : Jones report from Chapel Hill.
1975
A television news report of three minutes and fifty six seconds by Kenley Jones, broadcast on NBC Nightly News in 1975, on the spelling and grammar test journalism students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill had to pass for the major. John Adams, a former dean of the journalism school, is interviewed.
The evolution of the magazine
Willis, Stuart, active 1914 · 1914 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies of the University of North Carolina
Stuart Willis traces the history of the North Carolina University Magazine, the student periodical published at Chapel Hill since 1844. His article was detached from the magazine itself in 1914 and printed by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Literary Societies, which ran it.
The magazine for fifty years
Thompson, Holland, 1873-1940 · 1894 · Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies
Holland Thompson's history of the North Carolina University Magazine at fifty years, written while he was a student of the class of 1895. It ran in the magazine for March and April 1894 and was issued separately at Chapel Hill by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.
Southern broadcast media history initiative
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · 1995 · The Collections
Leaflet on the southern broadcast media history initiative of the Southern Historical and Folklife Collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, printed in 1995. The project concerned the history of broadcasting in the Southern states and the business records that document it. Five pages on one folded sheet with illustrations.
