I thought she was just a cub reporter.
Cub reporter would be an enormous promotion which her semi-literacy and shaky grasp of English would never permit.
She used to send articles about brush fires, mostly gleaned from a police scanner, to Crazy Miriam Raftery, who has a left-wing blog in San Diego.
She bitched about Crazy Miriam being too cheap to chip in on gasoline or recording equipment, and was finally invited to stop submitting to the blog.
So, she started writing her own left-wing blog, filled with scrambled English and out-of-focus snapshots.
She insists on calling this blog, which has virtually no readers, a "paper".