cub reporter 
noun informal
A young or inexperienced newspaper reporter: he joined the paper as a cub reporter in 1917...
- Born in the Bronx, Pressman worked as a cub reporter for a local newspaper through his high school years.
- She left school at 16, worked briefly as a cub reporter on a local newspaper, then moved to London, travelling widely in Europe and South Africa before embarking on a working life in publishing.
- My income dropped substantially, though, when I joined the local newspaper as a cub reporter.
- up to putty
- up to scratch
- up to snuff
- up to speed
- (up) to the hilt
- up to the mark
- up to the minute
- up to the (or one's) eyeballs
- up to the (or one's) eyes (in)
- uptown
- uptowner
- uptrend
- upturn
- UPU
- uPVC
- upvote
- upward
- upwardly
- upwardly mobile
- upwardly (or downwardly) mobile
- upward mobility
- upwards
- upwards (or upward) of
- upwarp
- upweight