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Lara Parsons

Social Media Editor

Lara Parsons
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Location
London / Newcastle
Education
Newcastle University
Expertise

Student news, student advice, Newcastle University, Northumbria University, sport, netball, nightlife, journalism, media, and culture

  • Lara is currently the Social Media Editor for the Newcastle Tab, in which she posts daily stories or memes on Instagram. As well as this, she writes pieces for The Tab Newcastle
  • Lara predominantly writes fun features and student advice guides for The Tab Newcastle. She also has an interest in composing breaking news stories
  • Lara also partakes in sport, and is captain of an intramural netball team of which she occasionally coaches. additionally, she likes to paint in her spare time

Experience

Lara began as a student contributor to The Tab Newcastle in January 2023, her first year of University. She has since gone to weekly Tab meetings and has progressed onto Social Media Editor for the Newcastle Tab, in which she avidly posts interactive stories and relatable memes

Education

Lara finished sixth form college in London and went straight to Newcastle University in 2022. She is currently doing a BA in Journalism, Media and Culture as a second year student

THE TAB'S EDITORIAL POLICIES

The Tab's journalism is brought to you by young reporters who like being first. On university campuses, our writers deliver local news you care about. At The Tab HQ, our experienced journalists write about everything from breaking news to politics to pop culture to TikTok trends to the latest entertainment and celeb gossip. Our aim is to deliver sharp, original, and agenda-setting journalism to young people. All our stories are fact checked and sources verified. Further information on our editorial policies and processes can be found here.

Posts

Photos show Castle Leazes being torn down after 50 years to make way for new student village

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A new accommodation site with the capacity of over 2,000 students is expected to replace Castle Leazes in 2027

Nine of all the best Christmas dinner dining spots in Newcastle

| Guides

Treat yourself to a sleigh meal this December

ALL the events in Newcastle this November

| News

15 activities to cure your winter blues 

Northumberland Street Barclays covered in red paint and attacked with hammer

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Pro-Palestinian protestors have vandalised Barclays branches across the UK

Just eight things in the Toon that would send a Victorian child into a coma

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A treb just might kill them off…

All of the back to uni stereotypes you should expect to meet: Toon edition

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If you don’t fit any of these then lucky you x