Student Journalists Document Campus Shooting, Reactions

Sending positive thoughts and healing prayers to the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill after an on-campus shooting Monday left a professor dead and a graduate student jailed on murder charges. Fear of an active-shooter situation shut down the campus and the surrounding areas for hours.

The Equinox supports our colleagues at The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s independent student-run news organization, for their ongoing coverage in the aftermath of this frightening event.

Watch Amna Nawaz of PBS News Hour interview DTH Editor-in-Chief Emmy Martin Wednesday night about how the student journalists came together to cover the unthinkable, including the inspired all-text front page of the paper, which went viral on social media.