byline

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Etymology

From by- +‎ line.

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Noun

byline (plural bylines)

  1. (journalism) A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name.
    • 2024 April 22, Matt Stevens, Shivani Gonzalez, “Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
      Paste Magazine opted not to put a byline on its harsh review of Swift’s album, citing safety concerns for the writer.
  2. (sports) A touchline.

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Verb

byline (third-person singular simple present bylines, present participle bylining, simple past and past participle bylined)

  1. (journalism, transitive) To provide (an article) with a byline.
    • 2020, Colin Elman, John Gerring, James Mahoney, editors, The Production of Knowledge: Enhancing Progress in Social Science, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, footnote 34, page 416:
      Mitchell, Lange and Brus (2013) find that in a top international relations Journal—ISQ—83 percent of men's citation are to research bylined by just men, while 57 percent of women's citations are to articles bylined by just men (table 2).

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