Elizabeth Moore is a student-journalist at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and is currently an Investigative reporter and Senior Writer on the City & State Desk for The Daily Tar Heel, UNC’s student newspaper.

In August, through filing a public records request and reading a bunch of emails, she uncovered faculty dissent and warning signs sent to UNC administration from medical experts about the likelihood of COVID-19 outbreaks at the university prior to them moving instruction online for the fall.

In this episode, we discuss how that story came to be, what it was like to read thousands of emails, organizing that information into a multi-article series, and her reaction from the New York Times sharing it. We also talk about her work outside the Daily Tar Heel, such as how she landed an internship at The Eastern Beacon by cold-calling their editor. Finally, Moore shares how she first fell in love with writing, and why attending a summer camp when she was younger helped her discover a passion for non-fiction writing. 

You can follow Elizabeth on Twitter at @elizltmoore