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

He leveled a few of his own, when he was a conservative cub reporter for the American Spectator.

From The Daily Beast

Who now are rated as successes on the roll call of those cub reporter days?

From Project Gutenberg

Some cub reporter coined the phrase that will long outlive the man to whom it was applied.

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Perhaps you've read stories about the cub reporter scooping the town, landing the big exclusive story and all that.

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Was she laughing now with Gibson, telling him of her experience with a flirtatious or sickly sentimental cub reporter?

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So far as his personal preference was concerned he would have been well satisfied if some cub reporter had been given the job.

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