The Daily Tar Heel's history
Feb. 23, 1893
The Tar Heel is founded by the Athletic Association as a weekly four-page tabloid financed through advertising revenue and subscriptions. Students paid an annual subscription of $2.50, or $0.05 per issue.
June 5, 1920
Then-editor Thomas Wolfe announces the paper will soon begin publishing twice-weekly.
September 1920
The paper begins twice-weekly publication.
1923
The paper transfers oversight from the Athletic Association to the Student Publications Union Board, which also oversaw Carolina Magazine, the Carolina Buccaneer and the Yackety Yak. All students were automatically charged an annual $5.50 publications fee.
1925
The paper begins publishing three times a week.
1927
The paper's first summer edition is published. The summer edition wouldn't become commonplace until the 1940s.
Feb. 7, 1929
A financing proposal to fund a daily Tar Heel passes a campuswide vote 666 to 128. The paper begins publishing Tuesday through Sunday.
March 1943
The paper scales back publication to twice weekly until the end of World War II.
Feb. 5, 1946
After the end of the war, the paper returns to daily publication with the goal of becoming "the greatest college newspaper in the world."
1977
The paper is constitutionally guaranteed at least 16 percent of student activity fees for funding. The same year, the paper was granted its own independent publication board.
1989
The DTH incorporated as a separate educational 501(c)(3) non-profit entity from the University.
1993
The paper stopped taking student fee money, making it completely financially independent from the the University for the first time. The change also allowed the paper to change the way it selected its editor, replacing a campuswide election with today's selection process. Today, the paper pays a facility fee for its offices in the Frank Porter Graham Student Union, where it has been housed since 1969.
November 1994
The paper posted its first edition online, making it one of the first newspapers of any kind in the country to do so.
