Apply now to join The Cambridge Tab’s team for Michaelmas 2020!

Looking ahead to Michaelmas 2020, The Cambridge Tab is opening the first round of applications for our editorial and writing positions for next term. It looks like it will be a really interesting one, with plenty to cover regarding the transition from a virtual Easter to a (hopefully!) in-person Michaelmas. Whether you’re interested in writing news, culture, or lifestyle articles – feel free to apply for more than one section – there will be a place for you within The Tab! It gives you the chance to inform and shape the opinions of Cambridge students, in a style that they want to read.

You also don’t need to be an editor to write for us – we have a writers’ group for commissions and you can always message the Facebook page (or the editors, Genevieve Holl-Allen and Izzy Dignum) with article ideas.

The Cambridge Tab has received 1.8 million views over this past year, publishing 218 stories and receiving 867,000 page views in Easter term alone. There are opportunities for your articles to be read nationally (or even picked up by major news outlets), room for progression, a lovely team, and a platform for you to try out writing. Even if you’ve never tried out journalism before, we’d love to have you on board. We want to recruit as diverse a team as possible in order to represent the many voices of the Cambridge student body.

If you have any questions, feel free to email us at [email protected].

News editors and news reporters

Breaking big stories is key to The Tab’s success, having covered events this term like exam arrangements and Cambridge’s decision to move all lectures online (which made the national news!) This is a fast-paced role which means that you get to be part of a small team which is responsible for informing the student body on major issues as soon as they happen.

Opinions editors

Have you ever thought that more people need to hear your hot takes on current events who aren’t your close family, friends or your dog? This is your time! Opinions editors discuss the important issues that Cambridge students face, for example tuition fees in light of COVID-19 or why students should be allowed to undertake paid jobs during term. There will be plenty to talk about in Michaelmas as you can hold the university to task on how it adapts to socially-distanced learning. Or, alternatively, you could write a spicy piece on why Cindies is not, in fact, the deal-breaker of a social life in Cambridge…

Features editors

This is Top Tier Tab. This is the most read and most interactive section and there is so much freedom as to what you can cover, creating quizzes, polls, list or how-to articles. You could be the leading source of inspiration next term on how to socialise during a pandemic, bop outfits which can wow from a 2m distance, and much more!