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byline

American  
[bahy-lahyn] / ˈbaɪˌlaɪn /
Or by-line

noun

bylines plural
  1. a printed line of text accompanying a news story, article, or the like, giving the author's name.


verb (used with object)

bylined, bylining
  1. to accompany with a byline.

    Was the newspaper report bylined or was it anonymous?

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Etymology

Origin of byline

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30; by- + line 1

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Her byline has appeared in LAist, the Pleasanton Weekly, Peninsula Press and the Bulletin magazine.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2026

Glamorously writing under the byline Genêt, she filled her dispatches with more fizz than champagne.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 19, 2026

Here, it is a man whose labor disappears behind a woman’s byline, a sly inversion of the far more familiar historical pattern.

From Salon Dec. 25, 2025

The section’s sole byline, from a Chicago writer named Marco Buscaglia, appears on nearly a dozen articles.

From Slate May 21, 2025

I published essays admitting that I was not a minority—saw my byline in magazines and journals which once had seemed very remote from my life.

From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez

In the Bay Area, she worked as the food and wine intern at the San Francisco Chronicle and earned bylines for publications including SFGate and the Oaklandside.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2026

Now, he typically takes sole bylines because he feels the work is mostly his own.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 27, 2026

It was heartbreaking to see bylines without reporters like Yeganeh Torbati.

From Slate Mar. 3, 2026

It’s easy to blame the reporters whose bylines appear on Times news articles for their pusillanimity.

From Salon Oct. 20, 2024

And just when we got used to seeing their bylines, off to the Gulf the Goenkars went.

From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

Munson, herself an artists’ model, was neither happy nor prosperous toward the end of her career, when she expressed that lament in a bylined article syndicated by the Hearst newspapers.

From New York Times Dec. 15, 2022

In the weeks before the June primary, German bylined reports about an office “mired in turmoil and internal dissension” between longtime employees and new hires under Telles’ leadership.

From Seattle Times Sep. 8, 2022

In the weeks before the election, German bylined reports about an office “mired in turmoil and internal dissension” between longtime employees and new hires under Telles’ leadership.

From Washington Times Sep. 7, 2022

Several of Targeted Victory’s op-eds contained links to negative news coverage about TikTok and were often bylined by influential community figures and politicians, including Democrats.

From The Verge Mar. 30, 2022

And so the Times summoned three bylined reporters, and three more contributing reporters, to write a news story about it.

From Slate Apr. 21, 2020

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