of the Year Winner: 2013 (Sports), 2016 (Editorial/Opinion), 2017 (Feature and Sports) Society of Professional Journalists – National Mark of Excellence Awards Sports Writing Finalist: 2002 Best all-around daily student newspaper Finalist: 2009 The DTH staff also wins awards in competitions against professional newspapers in North Carolina. Since 2001, the newspaper has won more than a half-dozen awards from the North Carolina Press Association for its photography, news writing, and design. It has also won more than two dozen first-place advertising awards in its division, which comprises paid dailies with circulations between 15,000 and 34,999. In February 2011, the paper was awarded the second place NCPA general excellence award for its division, becoming the first college paper in the state to earn a general excellence award. The paper also placed first in the state for its higher education coverage. Notable alumni Cole Campbell, former St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor Howie Carr, talk radio host at WRKO in Boston and various affiliates; columnist with the Boston Herald W. Horace Carter, Pulitzer Prize winner for his reporting on the Ku Klux Klan Jonathan W. Daniels, author and White House Press Secretary for Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman Peter Gammons, ESPN sportswriter and broadcaster Gail Godwin, novelist and short story writer who wrote a column called "Carolina Carrousel" while a student at UNC Louis Harris, journalist who established the Harris Poll Mary Junck, president, CEO and chairman of Lee Enterprises, which publishes 54 daily newspapers Wayne King, Pulitzer Prize winner, Detroit Free Press and former writer for The New York Times Charles Kuralt, award-winning CBS journalist and author Rob Nelson, co-anchor of ABC's World News Now and America This Morning Robyn Tomlin, managing editor of the Dallas Morning News William Woestendiek, Pulitzer Prize-winning editor and journalist Thomas Wolfe, novelist and playwright Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post book columnist Edwin Yoder, syndicated columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner References External links Daily Tar Heel website Daily Tar Heel PDF issues from 2009-2017 Daily Tar Heel issues from 1893-2008 Daily Tar Heel headline archive Publications established in 1893 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill media University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill student organizations Daily newspapers published in North Carolina Student newspapers published in North Carolina