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.

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verb (used with object)

bylined, bylining

1. to accompany with a byline.

   Was the newspaper report bylined or was it anonymous?

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• unbylined
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• bylines
  plural

Etymology

Origin of byline

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

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026

Axel-owned Business Insider in December launched a pilot program for AI to write quick news stories under a designated byline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 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

But the story, under Neil Sheehan’s byline, was absolute dynamite.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin