CNN • 12/07/2021

'A surreal moment': Fired employees share what it was like on that mass-firing Zoom

Christian Chapman, a former underwriter at Better.com, thought he was logging onto another of CEO Vishal Garg’s town halls. He didn’t know it would be his last call as an employee of the online mortgage company.

CNN • 11/02/2021

Here's what it's like to live in one of Charlie Munger's windowless dorms

Billionaire Charlie Munger’s controversial plans for a massive, windowless dorm at the University of California, Santa Barbara has left many wondering – how is this even possible?

CNN • 12/05/2021

Better.com CEO fires 900 employees over Zoom

Better.com CEO Vishal Garg announced the mortgage company is laying off about 9% of its workforce on a Zoom webinar Wednesday abruptly informing the more than 900 employees on the call they were being terminated just before the holidays.

CNN • 11/21/2021

Here's why Gen Z is unionizing

Even among the generally youthful demographic of Starbucks workers unionizing in Buffalo, New York, 17-year-old Maya Panos is younger than most.

UNC Media Hub • 11/02/2020

Child brides? North Carolina has a problem

Registers of Deeds throughout the state have found that North Carolina has become a safe haven for predators to marry minors.

Washington Post • 09/07/2020

My university botched the pandemic. What does that say about how it sees its students and community?

Because the school’s response to this global pandemic has left me wondering: Did it ever love me the way I loved it?

CNN • 02/16/2021

Citibank can't get back $500 million it wired by mistake, judge rules

Instead, Citibank accidentally wired almost 100 times that amount, including $175 million to a hedge fund.

The Sun Sentinel • 07/19/2020

When the beach was off limits to humans, a rare colony of seabirds found a place to nest

When the humans left, the seabirds flocked home.

The Daily Tar Heel • 06/03/2020

Some worry Reckoning program doesn't measure up to peer institutions

In the months following the 2015 Charleston shooting, Southern universities revived a long-standing debate — how to reconcile their tainted pasts.

News & Observer • 09/18/2020

Black-owned businesses face unique challenges during COVID-19 recession

Durham has changed, and the COVID-19 pandemic has changed it even more.

The Daily Tar Heel • 09/14/2020

One week out from the start of classes, first-years say their goodbyes

Across campus on Tuesday afternoon, UNC students were preparing to say goodbye.

The Sun Sentinel • 09/11/2020

For South Florida Muslims, Eid goes virtual but ‘unhealthy breakfast’ endures

This Friday, the imam at the Islamic Foundation of South Florida in Sunrise will be speaking into a webcam as Muslims across the region celebrate one of the religion’s most festive holidays in isolation.

The Daily Tar Heel • 04/15/2021

We conducted our first internal diversity audit. Here are the results.

Though we don’t have data to compare to past years, the audit shows what the newsroom has always known: the staff of The Daily Tar Heel is overwhelmingly white and upper middle class from suburban areas.