The Daily Tar Heel has been publishing continuously since 1893, and in 1989 it incorporated as a 501 (c)(3) non-profit corporation separate from the university. It stopped taking student activity fees in 1993 and is solely funded by its advertising revenue, thus making it both fiscally and editorially independent. The paper moved off campus to downtown Chapel Hill in the summer of 2010. The studen
t journalists are solely responsible for all content under the direction of the student editor-in-chief. The paper circulates 18,000 free copies each publishing day during the regular academic year to 205 distribution locations throughout campus, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Chatham and Durham, (http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/page/find_a_paper) making it the largest community newspaper in the area with an estimated readership of more than 38,000. The editor-in-chief oversees the newsroom and is ultimately responsible for all news and editorial content. The editor also hires the rest of the news and editorial staff, which includes the managing editors for print and online, the opinion editor, the public editor and editors for each of the newsroom’s 14 desks. The student advertising and business staff comprises about 30 students a year working separately from the news staff.
