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

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

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

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

From Slate • May 21, 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