Posted on Sep 2, 2023
The front page of UNC's Daily Tar Heel was a gut punch. Here's the story behind it
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The last few days have been grueling, emotional and depleting for Emmy Martin.
The Daily Tar Heel editor-in-chief helmed an edition of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's newspaper dedicated to the fatal shooting and terror that gripped the campus on Monday.
"Once we got out of lockdown, we immediately started rethinking what our Wednesday paper would look like," Martin told NPR.
The plan had been to run a football preview but after a faculty member was shot and killed, allegedly by a graduate student, Martin said it was clear that angle "was not the right tone."
The last few days have been grueling, emotional and depleting for Emmy Martin.
The Daily Tar Heel editor-in-chief helmed an edition of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's newspaper dedicated to the fatal shooting and terror that gripped the campus on Monday.
"Once we got out of lockdown, we immediately started rethinking what our Wednesday paper would look like," Martin told NPR.
The plan had been to run a football preview but after a faculty member was shot and killed, allegedly by a graduate student, Martin said it was clear that angle "was not the right tone."
The front page of UNC's Daily Tar Heel was a gut punch. Here's the story behind it
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