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The Morning Edition · Friday, 29 May 2026

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Why this paper has one name on the masthead — and an open door beside it

The institutional newsroom spent a century teaching readers to trust a logo instead of a person. That trade is unwinding. Here’s the wager I’m making on what replaces it.

By Abraham D. Hdru · Part of the storyline The Byline Returns

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The Byline Returns

Across the world, journalists are walking out of collapsing institutions and publishing under their own names. The masthead is shrinking to a single person; the byline is becoming the brand. This is the story of that shift — told by the people living it, in a paper that is itself an example of it. An open thread: if you’ve reclaimed your name, you’re a chapter.