byline

or by-line

[ bahy-lahyn ]

noun

1. a printed line of text accompanying a news story, article, or the like, giving the author's name.

verb (used with object)

, by·lined, by·lin·ing.

1. to accompany with a byline:

   Was the newspaper report bylined or was it anonymous?

Other Words From

• un·bylined adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of byline¹

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

Example Sentences

Amlung noted that it's somewhat unusual for undergraduate students to be authors in a published scientific paper, but they earned their byline with their hard work as equal contributors to the research.

From Science Daily

In 2017, his magazine, American Renaissance, under an anonymous byline, ran an article titled “What Does it Mean for Whites if Climate Change is Real?” which asked, “Are we preparing for agricultural disruption in some areas and new opportunities in others? Do we have the legal framework to deal with ‘climate refugees’?”

From Salon

In 2019, going by his byline of “Mike Ma,” he self-published a novel called “Harassment Architecture,” which glorifies those lone-wolf acts of terror, picking up on strains of Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, who expressed fears about the future “greenhouse effect” and disavowed modernity and its consumerist culture.

From Salon

His byline has appeared in Business Insider, Yahoo! and other publications.

From Los Angeles Times

The article is by the Times’ Melissa Clark, and gets off to a great start immediately with her byline, in which she is described as having an “obsession with British cream teas and 19th-century novels” that “inspires many of her baked confections.”

From Slate