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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.


verb (used with object)

bylined, bylining
  1. to accompany with a byline.

    Was the newspaper report bylined or was it anonymous?

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Etymology

Origin of byline

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


Example Sentences

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“At the other extreme, people do have the right to expect that a journalist’s byline means that he or she actually composed the words that follow.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

She parrots the byline they typically run beneath my face.

From "How It Went Down" by Kekla Magoon

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

There, she covered breaking business and economics news, regularly landing front-page bylines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

It was heartbreaking to see bylines without reporters like Yeganeh Torbati.

From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2026

The author is a Los Angeles–based writer with recent bylines in the Cut, HuffPost and the Washington Post.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 30, 2026

Like the innovative Ivan Fera, who died young along with the promise of immense talent and many bylines in journals like The Illustrated Weekly.

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 June primary, German bylined reports about an office “mired in turmoil and internal dissension” between longtime employees and new hires under Telles’ leadership.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 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

And so the Times summoned three bylined reporters, and three more contributing reporters, to write a news story about it.

From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2020

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