Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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alt. (context dated English) A young, inexperienced reporter employed by a newspaper or magazine. n. (context dated English) A young, inexperienced reporter employed by a newspaper or magazine.
Usage examples of "cub reporter".
I stood at the back of the room, rows of empty desks between me and the excited group gathered around the triumphant cub reporter.
I asked with all the confidence of a twenty-three-year-old cub reporter whose grandmother was as stout as lye soap.
I spoke to the editor of the Mail and they have offered me a job as a cub reporter.
I'm theoretically on duty twenty-four hours a day, every day of the week, but fortunately that duty does not include extending courtesy to every stray cub reporter in town.
She was a cub reporter on the old New York Post when I was a rookie cop.
It had been utter folly to follow Corrie: a self-delusion, born of an attempt to help a cub reporter and to find his own new angle on the story.
I took a picture of McGee when I was a cub reporter on the paper, but they never used the picture.