We’re The Tab UC Irvine
And this is what we’re about
The Tab is UC Irvine’s newest student news platform reporting on campus life and news. Our student writers will be reporting on stories that aren’t being talked about anywhere else. Delivering the latest news, in a style that is readable, unpretentious and entertaining.
Students on campus cover our stories as they happen. We favor investigative journalism and original reporting over re-writes and tired opinion pieces.
We recognise that as students, we probably are not the best placed people to talk about the Syrian refugee crisis or the volatile Chinese stock market. What we do know is our own lives and our own campus.
Generally speaking, mainstream media poorly represents students and young people. Stories about student protests and politics, Greek life, even party culture are not well characterized by middle-aged commentators.
The people that live and breathe these issues are the best people to talk about them. In short, we are the best people to talk about life at UC Irvine. Not the New York Times, not the professors, not the prospectus but us – the students.
We’re upfront, in your face and about to take over campus. No pretention, no abstractions but straight talking, well-written news and opinion that get to the heart of the issue.
These issues aren’t always serious. In fact, more often than not, they are not. It could be a discussion about the over-Instagramed OC sunset or the best party houses. Anteaters don’t take themselves too seriously and neither do we.
Like our own campus, The Tab doesn’t hold only one opinion. We are a platform for open debate on issues that affect students. Whatever you think – there is a place for you here.
Student journalism needs an injection of sass and we are here to deliver just that.