Applications for The Birmingham Tab’s 2025/26 editorial team are now open
The application deadline is Friday 2nd May at 2pm!
Applications to join The Birmingham Tab’s editorial team for 2025/26 are now open!
The positions available are Editor in Chief, News Editor, Features Editor, Social Media Editor, and TikTok Editor, and students from any university in Brum are eligible to apply.
Successful applicants will be part of a core team producing a variety of high quality, engaging, and relevant content for students across both of Birmingham’s universities.
You’ll receive training from the team at The Tab HQ, and also gain a wide range of fantastic journalistic experience. Previous editors and contributors at The Tab have gone on to work for BBC News, The Telegraph, Vogue, and more.
What else is in it for you? As an editor, you’ll have the opportunity to write for the national Tab website (which over nine million monthly views) and network with other student Tab editors from across the country at our biannual London get togethers.
Here is a run down of the editorial roles in greater detail:
Editor in Chief
Being Editor in Chief means you are responsible for the entire Birmingham Tab team.
In this role, you will be in charge of leading the editorial team and the student contributors, meaning strong leadership is a key aspect of this role.
Features of this role include heading and creating weekly meetings with The Birmingham Tab, and communicating with other organisations such as Birmingham universities, the Birmingham City Council and West Midlands Police, as examples.
Not only this, the Editor in Chief is also in charge of daily content being produced for The Birmingham Tab’s social media.
This role is highly demanding but comes with incredible experience which is favoured in future journalistic jobs.
You’ll be working on stories like these:
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News Editor
This is one of the best roles in Birmingham student media for anyone wanting to gain a wide range of experience in news journalism. Each week is different and will require you to work on a variety of stories, as is the nature of news reporting.
You will be writing, editing, and commissioning news stories throughout each week based on current or upcoming events relevant to students in Sheffield. This includes strike action, protests, controversy, police incidents, issues facing students, or cultural events around the city.
You will also do some investigative and data journalism – being in the know and working on exclusive scoops.
We strive to be the first ones on a story, so having your finger on the pulse of the latest news, being organised, and being able to delegate are all key skills for this role.
Other responsibilities include supporting writers, giving feedback, and collaborating with the rest of the editorial team (we have a weekly catch up meeting!)
There will also be opportunities to work on social media and features content, as well as our coverage of events.
You’ll be working on stories like these:
• Birmingham student’s car damaged after bins and rubbish bags are set alight in Selly Oak
• University of Birmingham students left ‘sickened’ by Kanye West’s antisemitic tirades
• Birmingham University professor sentenced for making over 1,500 indecent images of children
Features Editor
Arguably the best job, not being biased obviously.
Features Editors are able to be more creative, opinionated with their writing whilst remaining relevant to university students in Birmingham. Features articles are less time restricted and can take the form of guides, witty humour and quizzes, giving a nice break between serious news articles.
The Birmingham Tab’s Features Editor would ideally understand relevant pop culture moments and understand campus gossip in Birmingham to be able to create funny content for university students.
In this role, you must be able to edit features articles and provide feedback to student contributors, create commissions for weekly meetings, and remain in touch with the social media team in regards to posting relevant content on social media.
This is a great role for someone wanting to be a journalist without delving into serious topics, and would be ideal for a student looking to work for a magazine.
You’ll be working on stories like these:
• 10 things you only know if you live in an all-girls uni house: Birmingham edition
• Here’s what your University of Birmingham study space says about you
• Five university icks that need to be avoided at the University of Birmingham
Social Media Editor
Our Social Media Editor must be a consistent poster on Instagram and Facebook for The Birmingham Tab.
Whilst experience is always preferred in regards to creating memes and reposting news stories, no experience is needed and training will be provided.
In this role, you will be responsible for consistently posting memes on Instagram and Facebook, reposting important national stories on Instagram and Facebook, as well as sharing Birmingham related news.
The perfect candidate for this role will be knowledgeable in different editorial apps for creating memes and be confident in front of cameras for Instagram Reels on important Birmingham news.
Previous experience using Canva and CapCut is desired but not necessary.
TikTok Editor
The TikTok Editor, similar to the Social Media Editor, must be consistent in posting various forms of content on TikTok which related to online trends and Birmingham university culture.
It is required that the TikTok Editor be able to use various editing software such as CapCut to create TikTok content which may be long news videos, viral trends, and much more!
You must be confident in front of the camera for filming TikTok videos from trending sounds and video formats, to serious news uploads. It is also favourable that the TikTok Editor collaborates with the Social Media editor frequently.
If you want to give journalism a try and believe you have the ability, here is the Google Form for applications for 2025/2026!
The deadline is Friday 2nd May at 2pm!
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