Popular student website The Tab has received another $6 million worth of backing in an investment round led by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. It’s a hugely deserved success for Jack Rivlin and Joshi Herrmann, whose rowdy reporting and network of wannabe hacks have disrupted the old student media establishment first in the UK and then Stateside. The loss making site’s growth has now been funded to the tune of $10 million by venture capital… 

The Tab and its sister site babe have local editions at 80 universities in the UK and US, its young hacks get a proper grounding in breaking real stories and Fleet Street is now awash with old Tabs. Not hard to see why they have caught Rupert and Rebekah’s eye, indeed even Guido has a Cambridge Tab alumnus on the reporting staff…

Younger readers will know of The Tab, the rowdy student news site that has successfully disrupted the old student media establishment. Guido has always thought it was a cracking good concept, so it’s welcome news that they’ve secured $3 million funding from venture capitalists Balderton Capital to expand in the US. A remarkable success story for what started off as Cambridge University’s online tabloid, funded by three kids out of their student loans, and now has 16 New York editors and 25 college sites in America. Guido will forgive them endorsing Labour in May as a rare lapse in their usually impeccable editorial judgement (NSFW)…