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.
His salary increases as he ascends from being a cub reporter to star crime reporter to star columnist.
In 1896, at age 23, he was hired as a cub reporter at a salary of $10 a week.
