cub reporter

noun

1. a young and rather inexperienced newspaper reporter.

cub reporter

noun

1. a trainee reporter on a newspaper

Word History and Origins

Origin of cub reporter¹

First recorded in 1895–1900

Example Sentences

His career has taken him from cub reporter at the Chester Observer to being the voice behind some of the World Cup, Premier League and FA Cup's most iconic moments.

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As a cub reporter in 2004, Weiss gets a hot tip about Spears’ wedding to Kevin Federline at the Studio City home of a Spears confidant.

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Santana Jr. put the cub reporter on the county government beat, which is how he found himself at Do’s election night party in 2015, the first time Do ran for supervisor.

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I realized that the first time I met her in 1975, when I was a cub reporter at The Washington Star.

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As Lachlan Murdoch got older, he would spend summers working in the family business, cleaning the presses for Sydney’s “Daily Mirror,” or working as a cub reporter for the “San Antonio Express-News.”

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