cub reporter
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of cub reporter
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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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.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2025
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.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2025
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.”
From Reuters • Sep. 22, 2023
He did get offers from the Tampa Tribune and the Birmingham News, but the $14,000-a-year cub reporter jobs wouldn’t allow travel on weekends.
From Washington Post • May 1, 2023
Then a doctoral student, he had learned of the region’s peculiar landscape during an earlier stint as a cub reporter in Peru and thought it might make an interesting topic for his thesis.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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