byline

American  

[bahy-lahyn] / ˈbaɪˌlaɪn /

Or by-line

noun

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

• unbylined adjective

Etymology

Origin of byline

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

Example Sentences

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

Frost's claim relates to four articles published between 2003 and 2005 on which Lampert has a byline.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 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

A simple bronze plaque included the accent over the “e” in “Rubén,” which his Times byline never had.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 29, 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