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noun by·line \ ˈbī-ˌlīn \

Definition of byline

1 :a secondary line :sideline

2 :a line at the beginning of a news story, magazine article, or book giving the writer's name

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Emily Crose is a freelance essayist with bylines on Motherboard.vice.com, Upworthy.com, TheEstablishment.co, and many others.

— emily crose, SELF, "I Transitioned While Working for the Army, and I Wasn't a Disruption," 28 Aug. 2017
Just Mayo: In the Aug. 23 Business section, an article about Target’s decision to stop selling Just Mayo and other Hampton Creek vegan food products carried an Associated Press byline.

— latimes.com, "For the Record," 24 Aug. 2017
Longtime readers of Daily Intelligencer and New York Magazine will instantly recognize the byline of S. Jhoanna Robledo, our real-estate reporter of more than a decade.

— christopher bonanos, Daily Intelligencer, "Remembering Our Colleague S. Jhoanna Robledo," 20 July 2017
THEN: Appearing under the byline Dorothy Dix, Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer's advice column first appeared in The Picayune in 1896.

— NOLA.com, "Dear Dorothy: New Orleans and the birth of the modern advice column," 5 July 2017
By Emma Brown (c) 2017, The Washington Post Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly ran with the byline of Danielle Dreilinger instead of the Washington Post.

— the washington post, NOLA.com, "GOP health care bill could pull billions of dollars from disabled students," 29 June 2017
The cookbook's first edition carried no byline, but culinary historian Rien Fertel said his research has led him to conclude the author was Marie Louise Points, a writer for The Picayune and other publications.

— NOLA.com, "1900: The Picayune Creole Cook Book is published -- and an heirloom is born," 25 June 2017
Eleven of the 13 songs on the album carry the bylines of Kelley, Scott and Heywood.

— chuck yarborough, cleveland.com, "Lady Antebellum's 'comeback' album 'Heart Break' is the band's best yet (CD review)," 20 June 2017
In some editions Friday, reporter James Hookway’s surname was misspelled as Hookaway in the byline of a World News article about an attack on a resort in the Philippines.

— WSJ, "Corrections &Amplifications," 2 June 2017

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First Known Use of byline

1916

byline

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Definition of byline

transitive verb

:to write (an article) under a byline

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byliner

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First Known Use of byline

1938

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