cub reporternoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkʌb rɪˌpɔː.tər/us/ˈkʌb rɪˌpɔːr.t̬ɚ/a young person being trained to write articles for a newspaper
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People who write for work or pleasure
- adapter
- authorial
- chronicle
- co-author
- contributor
- copywriter
- ghostwrite
- hack
- humorist
- investigative journalism
- journalist
- naturalist
- novelist
- playwright
- poet laureate
- satirist
- screenwriter
- scribbler
- scriptwriter
- speechwriter
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News reporting & the press
Examples from literature
- He forgave everybody, even the cub reporter who had painted him red and to whom he now granted a full page with specially posed photographs.
- Once a cub reporter was ordered by his city editor to go and interview a certain man.
- The cub reporter was a trifle perplexed by this talking over him and around him and at him.
- The great author ought to be coming to his school out of respect for him, not because a seventeen-year-old cub reporter sent him.
- They knew me, and when they saw Tom towing my hamper they cracked a few jokes about the new Times cub reporter and waved us through.