: a young newspaper reporter who does not have much experience
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In addition, the copyboy or cub reporter sees little hope for advancement, since the career pyramid has a wide base (the working press) and a narrow apex (editors and executives).—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025 Moyers started his career as a teenage cub reporter at a newspaper in Marshall, Texas.—
Scott Simon,
NPR,
28 June 2025 Moyers began his journalism career at age 16 as a cub reporter for a hometown newspaper in Marshall, Texas.—
Matt Webb Mitovich,
TVLine,
26 June 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.—
Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025 Although Eleanor initially rejects Nina’s pleas for a profile, the cub reporter’s persistence pays off.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
20 May 2025 Gunn tapped David Corenswet to play Clark Kent/Superman at 25, a bit more established than the young cub reporter of Smallville, for instance.—ArsTechnica,
14 May 2025 Gunn tapped David Corenswet to play Clark Kent/Superman, at 25 a bit more established than the young cub reporter of Smallville, for instance.—Ars Technica,
19 Dec. 2024 At the time, the great novelist and short story writer was a 23-year-old cub reporter working in Switzerland.—
Ella Feldman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
17 Dec. 2024