DAILY TAR HEEL - CLASSIFIEDS

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 176 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. He serves as the public face of the paper. The editor also hires the rest of the staff, which includes the managing editors for newsroom operations and online, 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 75 paid part-time student employees in news, advertising, customer service and production functions and another 150 or more student volunteers.