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Newspaper acknowledgement producing extremely bloody row (6)

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I believe the answer is:

byline

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'newspaper acknowledgement' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?

'extremely bloody row' is the wordplay.
'extremely' says to hollow out the word (remove centre letters) (only the extremes of the word are used).
'row' becomes 'line' (as in a row of things).
'bloody' with its middle removed is 'by'.
'by'+'line'='BYLINE'

'producing' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for byline that I've seen before include "attribution" , "end of play" , "Credit for one reporting" , "Credit given author" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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