Our newsroom occasionally reports articles under the “staff” byline. Often, the “personal” byline is used when rewriting basic briefs from official sources, such as a city press release about a road closure, and which require little or no reporting. Sometimes this signature is used when a news story includes many authors or when the story is formed by aggregating previously reported news from various sources. If outside sources are used, this is noted in the story.

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