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

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 news agency made sure not to give any clue as to its sources: the article didn’t carry a byline or a dateline.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Heartless, she wants a bigger story, something that would put her byline on the front page.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2025

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

From Slate • May 21, 2025

Though the piece carried no byline, the style was Owen’s and no one in the world of the natural sciences doubted the authorship.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson