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'{{Infobox Newspaper |name = The Tab |image = [[Image:TheTabLogo.png|220px|The Tab's logo]] |type = Youth news site |format = Online |foundation = June 2009 |owners = Tab Media Ltd<!-- Tab Media Ltd. is now a redirect to this page. Please do not link. --> |circulation = 3,000,000 unique visitors per month |chiefeditor = Jack Rivlin |website = [http://thetab.com/ thetab.com] |founder = George Marangos-Gilks, Jack Rivlin, Taymoor Atighetchi|Executive Editor = Joshi Herrmann|UK Editor = Grace Vielma|US Editor = Matt McDonald|CEO = George Marangos-Gilks}} [http://thetab.com '''''The Tab'''''] is a youth news site published by Tab Media Ltd.<!-- Tab Media Ltd. is now a redirect to this page. Please do not link. --> It was launched at the [[University of Cambridge]] and has since expanded to over 40 other universities in the United Kingdom and over 20 in the [[United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tab.co.uk/|accessdate=7 November 2013}}</ref> The name is both an abbreviation for 'tabloid' and a nickname applied to Cambridge students (from '[[Cantabrigian|Cantabs]]'). The Tab's network consists of one main national site and an individual sub-site for each university. The vast majority of stories are produced by students, with a student editorial team for each sub-site. ==History== ===2009–2012=== ''The Tab'' was launched in 2009 by Cambridge students Jack Rivlin, George Marangos-Gilks and Taymoor Atighetchi.<ref name = "about">[http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/about-us/ About Us], The Tab, Cambridge, UK.</ref> The website was marketed as "Cambridge University's Online Tabloid" promising to "provide fast news and entertainment direct to your rooms".<ref name = "about"/> ''The Tab'' was initially funded entirely by its three founders, although it now funds itself through advertising and other investment. At its inception, "Tab Totty", a ''[[Page 3]]''-esque feature, featured photographs of scantily clad Cambridge University (male and female) students in provocative poses. The feature was widely criticised, with Cambridge University's Women's Officer stating "We can do better as a university". The subsequent controversy was picked up by several mainstream British newspapers, and made international headlines.<ref>Richard Edwards, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/6454616/Cambridge-University-in-totty-row.html Cambridge University in 'totty' row], ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 29 October 2009.</ref><ref>Rowenna Davis, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/oct/27/cambridge-the-tab-students-tabloid Cambridge's tawdry tabloid 'totty']. ''[[The Guardian]]'', 27 October 2007</ref><ref>James Clothier, [http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2705327/Cambridge-girls-in-sexy-pics-row.html Cambridge girls in sexy pics row], ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'', 30 October 2009.</ref><ref>Nicola Boden, [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223996/Cambridge-University-row-students-set-tabloid-website-complete-Page-Three.html Cambridge University row students set tabloid website complete with Page Three], ''[[Daily Mail]]'', 30 October 2009.</ref> In 2009, the site's readers voted [[British National Party]] leader [[Nick Griffin]] "The worst person ever to attend Cambridge University"<ref>''The Guardian'', Diary, 4 December 2009</ref> with 44% of the vote.<ref>Jack Rivlin, [http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/news/official-griffin-is-worst-tab/ "Official: Griffin is Worst Tab"], ''The Tab'', 28 November 2009</ref> In early 2010, ''The Tab'' ran an April Fool's hoax claiming Griffin had been stripped of his degree. This was subsequently reported by ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]'' who believed the claims to be genuine.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2010/apr/02/sun-april-fool-bnp-nick-griffin Sun April fooled by student's BNP story], News Blog, ''The Guardian'', 2 April 2010.</ref> In its first year of existence, ''The Tab'' made more than 20 appearances in the national media.<ref>[http://www.facebook.com/TheTabOfficial The Tab's Facebook page]</ref> In November 2010, ''The Tab'' released documents obtained via the [[Freedom of Information Act 2000|Freedom of Information Act]] detailing recent disciplinary procedures enacted across the University.<ref>Alasdair Pal, [http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/news/discipline/ Deaned!: Cambridge Discipline Uncovered, Part 1], ''The Tab'', 1 November 2010</ref><ref>Alasdair Pal, [http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/news/discipline-part-2/ Deaned!: Cambridge Discipline Uncovered, Part 2], ''The Tab'', 8 November 2010</ref> Details from the documents released were then reported by national newspapers, including ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.<ref>Martin Evans, [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/universityeducation/8120628/Discipline-files-reveal-high-jinks-of-Cambridge-students.html "Discipline files reveal high jinks of Cambridge students"], ''Daily Telegraph'', 10 November 2010.</ref> In June 2011, ''The Tab'' published a pilot print edition of 5,000 copies in [[May Week]] and another freshers' week edition in October 2011. This tradition continued in the following years. ===2012–present=== In Autumn 2012, ''The Tab'' expanded to 12 other British universities. Backed by external investment, Rivlin and Marangos-Gilks aim to build a mass circulation online paper for students across the country. The news site has received praise from multiple journalists, including [[Louise Mensch]] and [[David Dinsmore]],<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab's Blog|url=http://blog.tab.co.uk/post/78559149305/what-they-say-about-us|website=http://blog.tab.co.uk}}</ref> and has held journalism training events in association with [[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab's Blog|url=http://blog.tab.co.uk/post/93301688687/the-tab-and-the-telegraph-join-forces-to-train-the-top|website=http://blog.tab.co.uk}}</ref> They have since expanded their team at their London office to 33 <ref>{{cite web|last1=The Tab|title=Tab HQ|url=http://tab.co.uk/hq/|website=The Tab}}</ref> and reach 3,000,000 monthly readers.<ref>{{cite web|last1=@TheTab|title=The Tab's Twitter|url=http://twitter.com/thetab}}</ref> ''The Tab'' gets around six stories into the British national press a week. Grace Vielma assumed the helm as UK Editor in July 2015, with former Tab editor Joshi Herrmann joining from the [[London Evening Standard|Evening Standard]] as Executive Editor in September 2015. == America == ''The Tab'' opened its first American bureau in [[Brooklyn]] in July 2015. UK Deputy Editor Matt McDonald was promoted to US Editor. ''The Tab''<nowiki/>'s first scoop to make the national papers came four days before it launched its first sub-site - a video of a [[University of Virginia|UVA]] hockey player chugging a beer on the ice which they broke on their [https://www.facebook.com/TheTabUVA/videos/vb.1008053585891910/1012823262081609/?type=2&theater Facebook page] made the [[The Washington Post|Washington Post]], [[USA Today]] and several other titles. <ref>{{Cite news|title = Virginia club hockey goalie chugs beer during game, gets ejected|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/dc-sports-bog/wp/2015/09/14/virginia-club-hockey-goalie-chugs-beer-during-game-gets-ejected/|newspaper = The Washington Post|date = 2015-09-14|access-date = 2015-11-19|issn = 0190-8286|language = en-US|first = Scott|last = Allen}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title = College hockey goaltender ejected after chugging beer on the ice|url = http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/09/college-hockey-goaltender-virginia-ejected-after-drinking-beer|website = For The Win|accessdate = 2015-11-19|language = en-US}}</ref> The site launched at 23 colleges on the [[East Coast of the United States|East Coast]] in the fall of 2015 - including all eight [[Ivy League]] institutions, and major [[Public university|public universities]] such as [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]] and the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|University of North Carolina]]. They were read by over 350,000 people in their first full month and broke several stories which made the American national press. Their coverage of a [http://thetab.com/us/dartmouth/2015/11/14/i-was-proud-to-be-part-of-last-nights-protest-until-it-turned-ugly-978 Dartmouth Black Lives Matter protest] was featured on [[The O'Reilly Factor]] and [[Fox News Channel|Fox News]]. ==Awards== ''The Tab'' was highly commended at the Newspaper Awards in 2012 and 2014.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab's Blog|url=http://blog.tab.co.uk/post/81499946863/the-tab-highly-commended-at-the-newspaper-awards|website=http://blog.tab.co.uk}}</ref> Editor-in-Chief [[Jack Rivlin]] was noted as one of 30 people under 30 to watch by [[the Guardian]] and was named one of [[the Evening Standard]]'s Power 1000 in 2013. ==Scoops== Major scoops for ''The Tab'' included the "milking" craze, which was broken by the Newcastle edition<ref>http://newcastle.tab.co.uk/2012/11/22/milking-the-new-craze/</ref> and went around the world.<ref>http://newcastle.tab.co.uk/2012/11/26/holy-cow-outrage-as-milking-goes-international/</ref> In December 2012, the [[Bristol]] title revealed a ban on female speakers at the university's Christian Union.<ref>http://bristol.tab.co.uk/2012/12/03/christian-union-gags-female-speakers/</ref> In November 2013, The Tab Exeter broke a story about staff in the student bar recording a sex act seen on the CCTV cameras.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab Exeter|url=http://exeter.tab.co.uk/2013/01/09/tabtv-blowmeo-and-juliet/|website=http://exeter.tab.co.uk}}</ref> This story also went international, making headlines from New York to Japan. Starting in September 2013, ''The Tab'' pioneered a campaign to get Student Unions across the UK to ban [[Robin Thicke]]'s [[Blurred Lines]], after [[Edinburgh University Students' Association]] boycotted it.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab Edinburgh|url=http://edinburgh.tab.co.uk/2013/09/12/eusa-ban-blurred-lines-in-lad-culture-clampdown/|website=http://edinburgh.tab.co.uk}}</ref> Later in the year, the site published an exclusive story after DJ [[Tim Westwood]] was caught unleashing a torrent of sexist jibes at Leicester's Student Union.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab Leicester|url=http://leicester.tab.co.uk/2013/10/08/westwood-sexism/|website=http://leicester.tab.co.uk}}</ref> In one week in 2014, ''The Tab'' broke 4 stories which were later picked up by the national press.<ref>{{cite web|title=How The Tab dominated Fleet Street|url=http://tab.co.uk/2014/07/21/the-week-the-tab-dominated-fleet-street/|website=http://tab.co.uk}}</ref> ''The Tab'' dubbed this [http://tab.co.uk/2014/07/21/the-week-the-tab-dominated-fleet-street/ "The week The Tab dominated Fleet Street"]. ===False scoops=== In April 2010, an April Fools' story alleging that Cambridge had stripped [[Nick Griffin]] of his degree was picked up by ''[[The Sun (United Kingdom)|The Sun]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Guardian|url=http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2010/apr/02/sun-april-fool-bnp-nick-griffin|website=http://www.theguardian.com}}</ref> Later in the year, the site managed to convince a rival student paper at Cambridge that a phenomenon known as "bog snorkelling" was a new craze at the university, purveyed by interviewee Mack Rivling (a parody on the name of co-founder Jack Rivlin).<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab Cambridge|url=http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/2010/10/17/tab-hoaxes-the-next-bog-thing/|website=http://cambridge.tab.co.uk}}</ref> [[April Fools' Day]] 2014 yielded even more nibbles for the site, as people across the country fell for their practical jokes. The most notable was the Cambridge story, alleging that Prince William had received a [[third class degree]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab Cambridge|url=http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/2014/04/01/willy-fails-to-perform/|website=http://cambridge.tab.co.uk}}</ref> The same year, The Tab Manchester's April Fools' joke about a beloved halls of residence being knocked down came true.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab Manchester|url=http://manchester.tab.co.uk/2014/04/08/owens-park-tower-will-actually-be-demolished/|website=http://manchester.tab.co.uk}}</ref> ==Controversies== The "Rear of the Year" competition run by The Tab, which asked students to anonymously submit images of their bums to be rated by others, drew controversy in 2013 which led to Cambridge editor Will Heilpern defending the contest on national television.{{cn|date=August 2014}} ==Bursary sponsorship== The Tab sponsors a £4,500 bursary at [[City University London|City University]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Tab's Blog|url=http://blog.tab.co.uk/post/82687990523/the-tab-sponsors-4-500-journalism-bursary-at-city|website=http://blog.tab.co.uk}}</ref> == Sites == === United Kingdom === The Tab operates sites at over 40 universities in the UK: * [[University of Aberdeen|Aberdeen]] * [[Aberystwyth University|Aberystwyth]] * [[Aston University|Aston]] * [[University of Bath|Bath]] * [[University of Birmingham|Birmingham]] * [[University of Bristol|Bristol]] * [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] * [[Cardiff University|Cardiff]] * [[University of Chester|Chester]] * [[University of Dundee|Dundee]] * [[University of Edinburgh|Edinburgh]] * [[University of Exeter|Exeter]] * [[University of Glasgow|Glasgow]] * [[University of Hull|Hull]] * [[University of Kent|Kent]] * [[King's College London]] * [[Lancaster University|Lancaster]] * [[University of Leeds|Leeds]] * [[University of Leicester|Leicester]] * [[University of Lincoln|Lincoln]] * [[University of Liverpool|Liverpool]] * [[Liverpool John Moores University|Liverpool John Moores]] * [[Loughborough University|Loughborough]] * [[University of Manchester|Manchester]] * [[Newcastle University|Newcastle]] * [[Northumbria University|Northumbria]] * [[University of Nottingham|Nottingham]] * [[Nottingham Trent University|Nottingham Trent]] * [[University of Oxford|Oxford]] * [[Oxford Brookes University|Oxford Brookes]] * [[Plymouth University|Plymouth]] * [[Queen Mary University of London|Queen Mary]] * [[Queen's University Belfast]] * [[University of Reading|Reading]] * [[Royal Holloway, University of London|Royal Holloway]] * [[University of Sheffield|Sheffield]] * [[University of Southampton|Southampton]] * [[University of St Andrews|St Andrews]] * [[University of Strathclyde|Strathclyde]] * [[University of Sussex|Sussex]] * [[University of Central Lancashire|UCLan]] * [[University of East Anglia|UEA]] * [[University College London]] * [[University of the West of England|UWE]] * [[University of Warwick|Warwick]] * [[University of York|York]] === United States === * [[Boston College]] * [[Boston University]] * [[Brown University|Brown]] * [[Columbia University|Columbia]] * [[Cornell University|Cornell]] * [[Dartmouth College|Dartmouth]] * [[Duke University|Duke]] * [[Georgetown University|Georgetown]] * [[Harvard University|Harvard]] * [[Hunter College]] * [[University of Maryland, College Park|Maryland]] * [[New York University|NYU]] * [[University of Pennsylvania|Penn]] * [[Pennsylvania State University|Penn State]] * [[Princeton University|Princeton]] * [[Rutgers University|Rutgers]] * [[Syracuse University|Syracuse]] * [[Temple University|Temple]] * [[University of Connecticut|UConn]] * [[University of Massachusetts Amherst|UMass]] * [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill|UNC]] * [[University of Virginia|UVA]] * [[Yale University|Yale]] ==References== {{reflist|2}} ==External links== *[http://tab.co.uk/ ''The Tab National'' website] {{DEFAULTSORT:Tab}} [[Category:Publications established in 2009]] [[Category:Publications associated with the University of Cambridge]] [[Category:Student newspapers published in the United Kingdom]] [[Category:Digital newspapers published in Europe]]'