diff --git a/lib/logger/src/format.ts b/lib/logger/src/format.ts
index 060e0eff6..ad3e7b4d7 100644
--- a/lib/logger/src/format.ts
+++ b/lib/logger/src/format.ts
@@ -21,9 +21,12 @@ export const createFormatter = (thisLogger: winston.Logger) =>
       }
       if (info.process) {
         labels += `[${styles.dim(info.process)}]`
-      } else {
+      }
+
+      if (!info.process) {
         // simulate the newline present in a normal console.log (which we've
-        // removed from the Console transport)
+        // removed from the Console transport to support logging forked
+        // processes which don't necessarilly flush on a newline)
         message += '\n'
       }
 
diff --git a/lib/logger/src/helpers.ts b/lib/logger/src/helpers.ts
index 8a0fc42f7..98df24952 100644
--- a/lib/logger/src/helpers.ts
+++ b/lib/logger/src/helpers.ts
@@ -115,7 +115,9 @@ export function hookFork(
           readableObjectMode: true,
           transform: (message, _enc, callback) => {
             // add the log level and wrap the message for the winston stream to
-            // consume
+            // consume. we preserve newlines here as, unlike other cases, this
+            // logger can be called in the middle of a line depending on when
+            // the stream is flushed.
             callback(null, { level, message: stripAnsiReset(message) })
           }
         })