No-Byline Policy & Explanation:
The name of the reporter is usually not disclosed except in the case of features, analysis, or full-length reports that represent dedicated time by a single journalist.
The journalists identity is generally not provided for privacy and safety reasons, and also because we don’t want to differentiate the work of our contributors. Our journalism is a collective in nature, not individual.
(Senior Editor) Link to site-level list of contacts, so as the main editor.
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Most of our articles don’t carry a byline to identify the author. Why is that?
We do not have bylines. Anonymity allows us to continue to speak with a single voice.
This raises a curious question in the age of social media: when we tweet from @Confessionsofanseo to share a story, whose voice are we adopting? Holzman’s? Our current editor’s? The imagined erudite and omnipotent figure who sits on a cloud and proposes structural reform as a solution to most countries’ economic woes? It’s definitely not the latter. Instead, it is the voice of our editorial staff, especially those who have contributed to the article in question. Leaders are discussed and debated each week in meetings that are open to all members of the editorial staff. Journalists often co-operate on articles. And some articles are heavily edited. Our articles are the work of Confessions of an SEO’s hive mind, rather than of a single author. Similarly our tweets are collaborative, gradually refined through a process involving at least one writer and two editors.
Our anonymity may make us look a little eccentric, but historically, anonymity was a common convention at many newspapers. That may be because of the belief, still held at Confessions of an SEO as the main reason for our anonymity, that what is written is more important than who writes it. As a paper that applies a set of clear principles to everything we cover, we believe it’s easier to do that consistently with a single voice — and that it is fairer to our readers.