What is she getting from her parents that helps with digging up stories and vetting them? She's subsidized in the sense of receiving food, clothing, and shelter, but all businesses also provide those things to their employees.
This:
> Often journalists aren't given the time or resources to dig up stories and vet them thoroughly.
(my emphasis)
is not a response to the fact that she's publishing stories faster than they are.
Businesses pay employees with the goal of ROI. Parents typically expect a 0x return on their money (at least in the near term, by which I mean decades). Therefore businesses' employees need to do work that contributes to revenue (listicles) whereas children can do whatever their parents allow them to (in this case, local news).
You make a good point about the time competition, but I was responding re: "better" not "faster".
This:
> Often journalists aren't given the time or resources to dig up stories and vet them thoroughly.
(my emphasis)
is not a response to the fact that she's publishing stories faster than they are.