1. A processor-implemented system for automatically extracting by-line information in a crawled document, wherein said document contains a single news article, comprising: a detagging module for removing formatting tags from said crawled document to create a de-tagged version of said crawled document; a headline detection module for detecting a set of potential headlines of the document from a title meta-tag of the crawled document; a headline evaluation module for selecting a candidate headline from the set of potential headlines; and a by-line extraction module for extracting the by-line information from the de-tagged version of said crawled document using the location of the selected candidate headline.