The front page of UNC's Daily Tar Heel was a gut punch. Here's the story behind it
In the midst of a school shooting, UNC's student journalists kicked into action, covering the story as it unfolded. Now, the paper's front page — a block of heart-wrenching texts — is earning praise.
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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,
