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by-line

noun

  1. journalism a line under the title of a newspaper or magazine article giving the author's name
  2. soccer another word for touchline


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The idea is that a summary of what you have done is far more interesting than a detailed line-by-line activity stream.

We basically did a painstaking, line-by-line vetting by phone with one of the best First Amendment attorneys in the country.

Many times Penny, ever alert for news, had enjoyed the satisfaction of seeing her stories appear with a by-line.

The footnotes indicating the narrator have been moved to a by-line directly under the title of the story.

My stuff was run verbatim under a by-line and afterward picked up by the wire services.

Some male passers-by line up on the edge of the sidewalk and look on with a superior air.

So when two of them appear in one by-line, it can certainly be called a scoop; so that's what we'll call it.

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