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

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Etymology

Origin of byline

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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

byline bylines bylined

Each site was given a made-up journalist's byline and a fake Twitter/X account, boosted by hundreds of fake accounts posting comments meant to look like real people.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

Pep's thinking at this point was to deploy traditional wingers – Doku and Savinho, who could get to the byline with Foden and Reijnders expected to arrive into the box to help Haaland score goals.

From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026

With a higher concentration of film critics per row than at any other theater, the Holiday was the best place to spot people I only knew by byline.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 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

He often allowed their names to come first in journal articles announcing new Rad Lab discoveries, sometimes even refusing any byline whatsoever—both practices almost unheard of in major scientific laboratories led by an eminent figure.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

But after years of fighting for my own bylines, my ambition now was to help my students thrive, make a living and not repeat my mistakes.

From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026

Since joining this news organization, he has averaged about 266 bylines per year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Readers will recognize both bylines from our pages.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 22, 2025

The publication gave dozens of young writers from diverse backgrounds their first major bylines.

From Salon ● Nov. 16, 2025

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 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

The article in the Marquette Law Journal was jointly bylined with John Garvey, then a Notre Dame law professor and now president of Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2020

Many newspapers ran both contradictory accounts, neither bylined, giving readers a chance to watch the official story congeal in real time.

From Slate

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