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The byline on a newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 or magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 article gives the name, and often the position, of the writer of the article. Bylines are traditionally placed between the headline
Headline

A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it.It is sometimes termed a news hed, a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a headline and should not be set in type....
 and the text of the article, although some magazines (notably Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest

File:Readers Digest00.jpgReader's Digest is a monthly general-interest family magazine co-founded in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace....
) place bylines at the bottom of the page, to leave more room for graphical elements around the headline.

A typical newspaper byline might read
John Smith
Staffwriter


A byline can also include a brief article summary, introducing the writer by name.

Penning a concise description of a long piece has never been as easy as often appears, as Staffwriter John Smith, now explains:


Magazine bylines, and bylines on opinion pieces, often include biographical information on their subjects.






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The byline on a newspaper
Newspaper

A newspaper is a publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. General-interest newspapers often feature articles on Politics, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports....
 or magazine
Magazine

for quarterly in Heraldry see Quartering Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of Article , generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscription, or all three....
 article gives the name, and often the position, of the writer of the article. Bylines are traditionally placed between the headline
Headline

A headline is text at the top of a newspaper article, indicating the nature of the article below it.It is sometimes termed a news hed, a deliberate misspelling that dates from production flow during hot type days, to notify the composing room that a written note from an editor concerned a headline and should not be set in type....
 and the text of the article, although some magazines (notably Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest

File:Readers Digest00.jpgReader's Digest is a monthly general-interest family magazine co-founded in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace....
) place bylines at the bottom of the page, to leave more room for graphical elements around the headline.

A typical newspaper byline might read
John Smith
Staffwriter


A byline can also include a brief article summary, introducing the writer by name.

Penning a concise description of a long piece has never been as easy as often appears, as Staffwriter John Smith, now explains:


Magazine bylines, and bylines on opinion pieces, often include biographical information on their subjects. A typical biographical byline on a piece of creative nonfiction
Creative nonfiction

Creative nonfiction is a genre of writing truth which uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service to its craft....
 might read

John Smith is working on a book, My Time in Ibiza, based on this article. He is returning to the region this summer to gather material for a follow-up essay.


Most modern newspapers and magazines attribute their articles to individual editors, or to wire service
Wire Service

Wire Service is an United States Dramatic programming that aired on American Broadcasting Company as part of its 1956-57 United States network television schedule lineup....
s. An exception is the British weekly The Economist
The Economist

The Economist is an English-language weekly news and international relations publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in London....
, which publishes all material anonymously
Anonymity

Anonymity is derived from the Greek word a??????a, meaning "without a name" or "namelessness". In colloquial use, the term typically refers to a person, and often means that the Identity , or personally identifiable information of that person is not known....
.

See also


  • pen name
    Pen name

    A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her writings, or for any of a number of...
  • dateline
    Dateline

    A dateline is a short piece of text included in news articles that describes where and when the story was written or filed, though the date is often omitted....
  • Signature block
    Signature block

    A signature block is a block of text automatically appended at the bottom of an e-mail message, Usenet article, or Internet forum post. This has the effect of "signing off" the message and in a reply message of indicating that no more response follows....
     (SIG)