TO THE EDITOR:
Recently due to budget constraints, The Daily Tar Heel’s board of directors made the decision to terminate two employees on the paper’s small professional staff who had a combined half century of experience guiding this institution.
When I searched the DTH website for the names of the members of its own board or for a way to contact the board, I was further dismayed to realize that no such information exists on its website. This struck me as a shocking lack of transparency for a newspaper steeped in the journalistic tradition of holding power accountable.
Would The Daily Tar Heel’s editors and reporters not use its pages to voice concern about such an ability to operate in the shadows for a board of any other significant institution in the University community? Would they allow the Board of Trustees or Board of Governors that level of secrecy?
It seems to me a glaring lack of self-awareness and respect for the kinds of checks and balances journalists work so hard to maintain that The Daily Tar Heel would allow its own board to operate in such a manner.
Mike Ogle
Class of ’02
