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The Tab is hiring a Staff Writer (News)
We’re looking for a passionate journalist to write stories that affect young people – with an emphasis on news
The Tab is looking for an ambitious Staff Writer to work at its HQ, with a special focus on news.
The Tab is a news site covering student and youth culture, with seven million readers a month. We cover everything from Netflix to politics, as well as dominating uni campuses all over the UK. The Tab is part of Digitalbox Plc – the growing media company behind Entertainment Daily!, The Poke and The Daily Mash. At The Tab we put young people in charge; the average age is 25 and many staff go on to run their own team within three years.
You’ll join a team of 11 journalists in our HQ, writing several stories a day. In this role, you will write stories across many sections including entertainment and trends. This role has a special focus on news, being responsible for regular coverage of student and youth news. This includes: finding scoops, writing national data stories on university stats, leading the reporting on student issues like the ongoing strikes, and sending regular FOIs to uncover new cross-university stories.
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Our office in East London
The types of stories you’ll be writing:
- There were more than 1 million visits to ChatGPT website at universities in last exam season
- Cardiff lecturer posts video calling students ‘idiots’ for wanting safety net
- 18,000 of you took part, these are the UK unis that are most hooked on Elf Bars
- At least one university student has died every week since the start of term
- These are the UK unis the winter Love Island 2023 cast would go to, based on pure vibes
- We spoke to the boys in THIS picture and they’ve had enough of your jokes
- Derailed: TikTok train star Francis Bourgeois’ real name is… Luke
- ‘Bullying was day-to-day’: Inside Dragons’ Den star Steven Bartlett’s company Social Chain
- Cambridge student in white tie burns cash in front of homeless person
- Emily took her own life months into university. Then the screenshots and photos of her abuse came out
- Drake to Ariana Grande: How TikTokkers are making those viral AI cover songs
- Overworked and underpaid: Why grads are ditching jobs at the Big Four
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Key responsibilities:
- Writing at least three stories a day for The Tab’s national site, focusing on news but also writing fun features across entertainment, trends and guides
- Chasing tips and landing scoops that get picked up in the national papers
- Consistently sending original FOIs, running student surveys, and writing up data stories from a range of sources like UCAS and Guardian University Rankings
- Writing clever and impactful follow-ups to big student stories – e.g. the housing crisis, marking boycotts, ChatGPT on campus
- Working towards monthly pageview targets as set by the Editor-in-Chief
You must have:
- Six months to one year’s experience writing stories with an impressive readership – at a student paper, regional or national title
- Proven experience prioritising and managing multiple tasks at once
- A demonstratable understanding of what’s trending and what students want to read about – from campus trends, mental health, to the newest Netflix show and what’s going big on TikTok
- A 2.1 degree from a UK university
Benefits:
- £22,000 with a pay review after a year
- Hours: 9 am-6 pm on weekdays (with the option to start at 8 am and finish at 5 pm)
- 4.30pm finishes on a Friday
- 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays
- Flexible home/remote working options
- Access to our plant-filled office in Spitalfields, East London, which has perks like free yoga classes, cake and office drinks
- A young, sociable, ambitious team
- 24/7 access to doctors via the private WeCare app – for your physical or mental health
- Company-wide parties and retreats every year
- A company MacBook Air
To apply, email your CV plus the following to Editor-in-Chief Grace Vielma ([email protected]):
- Send links to three of your published stories
- Pitch three stories that are extremely relevant on the day of your application. At least one of these should live in the news section. Write your headline and a very brief synopsis
Applications close on Monday 26th June 2023 at midnight, and candidates should be available to start ASAP