Dallas, September 10, 2025
News Summary
Emma Moon, a recent graduate from the University of North Carolina, has started her internship in Dallas focusing on high school sports coverage. With a background in student journalism and previous reporting experience, she aims to explore community and sports-related topics. As she embarks on this new role, she brings valuable insights from her time covering college athletics and a passion for storytelling in sports.
Dallas — A recent University of North Carolina graduate from Asheboro, North Carolina, has arrived in Dallas this summer to begin an internship covering high school sports and related topics for a local newspaper. The new intern, Emma Moon, brings experience from collegiate student journalism and a prior summer reporting role, and plans to continue pursuing sports coverage at larger events.
What happened
Emma Moon started the internship in Dallas after graduating with a bachelor’s degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in May. At her new position she will focus primarily on high school sports while also exploring other community and sports-related assignments. Her background includes leadership work on a university student newspaper and a summer reporting internship at a Charlotte-based publication, where she covered a variety of sports stories and developed a taste for profile and feature reporting.
Why it matters
The placement brings a reporter with hands-on experience in college sports coverage into a market focused on local high school athletics, an area that often serves as the foundation for regional sports culture and community engagement. Her experience covering postseason college events, weekend baseball, and long-form features positions her to document both on-field outcomes and the human stories behind athletes and teams.
Key details
- Background: Grew up in Asheboro, North Carolina, a city of roughly 30,000 residents known for hosting a large natural land zoo attraction.
- Education: Enrolled at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2022 and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in May.
- Student journalism: Joined an independent student newspaper during her freshman year and later served as assistant sports editor, covering football and men’s basketball.
- Internships and assignments: Completed a summer sports reporting internship at a Charlotte-based paper and took on major assignments such as coverage of the men’s College World Series, reporting from a busy press box and managing writing and editing duties.
- Personal sports background: Spent childhood weekends following her brother’s travel baseball team, initially reluctant to watch but eventually developing a deep appreciation for baseball.
- Reporting influences: Early assignments included interviews with injured athletes and veteran amateur players, experiences that helped shape her interest in sports journalism and storytelling.
- Current role: Intern in Dallas covering high school sports and related community stories, with goals to return to large-event coverage in the future.
Notable experiences that shaped her reporting
Moon’s first sports assignment for her college paper involved coverage of a university baseball game, which introduced her to game-day reporting. She later covered national-level college baseball postseason play, taking on multiple responsibilities inside a busy press box. During a summer internship, she profiled an 86-year-old basketball player recognized for community impact, an assignment that emphasized the value of life lessons and intergenerational perspectives in sports reporting. Other interviews, including those with injured collegiate athletes and a 39-year-old club-level hockey player, helped Moon focus on the human stories that surround competition and recovery.
Early life and motivations
Moon grew up in a small-town environment where her high school did not field sports teams, leading her to seek activities outside Friday-night games early on. Moving an hour away to college exposed her to a robust sports culture for the first time and introduced her to student journalism. She originally planned to pursue an academic career focused on literature but shifted toward journalism after immersive reporting experiences that revealed a passion for telling sports-related stories.
Future goals
Moon aims to continue covering significant sports events, returning to postseason and high-stakes games when possible, and to chronicle both triumphant finishes such as walk-off wins and the emotional losses that define athletic competition. Her stated interests center on combining game coverage with human-centered features that explore the lives and lessons of athletes across ages and levels.
FAQ
Who is Emma Moon?
Emma Moon is a recent UNC-Chapel Hill graduate who began an internship in Dallas covering high school sports. She has prior experience in student journalism and a summer sports reporting internship.
Where did she grow up?
She grew up in Asheboro, North Carolina, a city of about 30,000 people known for a notable natural land zoo and a small-town atmosphere.
What experience does she bring to the internship?
Her experience includes serving as assistant sports editor at her university’s independent student newspaper, covering football and men’s basketball, reporting from the men’s College World Series, and completing a summer sports reporting internship.
What types of stories has she covered?
She has covered college baseball games, postseason college baseball, athlete profiles and recovery stories, veteran amateur athletes, and community-focused sports features.
What are her professional goals?
She aims to report from major sporting events again, documenting decisive wins and heartbreaking losses while emphasizing the human stories behind competition.
| Feature | Detail |
|---|---|
| Hometown | Asheboro, North Carolina (population ~30,000) |
| High school | Small graduating class (72 students total); no school sports offered |
| College | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (enrolled 2022, graduated May) |
| Student journalism role | Joined independent student newspaper as a freshman; later assistant sports editor |
| Notable assignments | Men’s College World Series coverage, university baseball game coverage, athlete profiles |
| Internship experience | Summer sports reporting internship at a Charlotte-area paper; current internship in Dallas covering high school sports |
| Professional goal | Report from major sports events and craft human-focused sports stories |
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Additional Resources
- El Paso Times: High School Sports Scoreboard
- NBC DFW: Texas High School Football Scores
- Houston Chronicle: Texas High School Football Rankings
- Dallas News: Previews and Predictions for Texas High School Football
- Wikipedia: High School Sports
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