A BOLD new student newspaper venture has been
launched by enterprising young journalist Jack Rivlin.
The Tab, an on-line Cambridge University
newspaper, has been rolled out to University College London and the
universities at Durham, Exeter and East Anglia.
Jack co-founded the on-line publication in 2009
and after gaining funding, left his job as night news reporter at the London Evening
Standard to head the business.
I was extremely impressed with the quality of The
Tab when I first read it earlier this year and under Jack’s stewardship, it has
a great future. The ambition is to launch in all universities, recruiting
undergraduates as volunteer staff.
At London’s City University last week, 60 new student
recruits turned up to hear a talk by the Sunday Times night editor Maurice
Chittenden, former Tab editor and Standard writer Joshi Herrmann and myself.
Click onto the link to hear us wittering on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lYtCUAq-UA
Maurice kicks off, I start at 28 mins 45 secs and
Joshi at 46 mins 28 secs.
Neville Thurlbeck is the founder of TalentGB, an on-line directory
of showreels of artistes of every genre
