dateline

[deyt-lahyn]

noun

1. a line of text giving the place of origin and usually the date of a news dispatch or the like.

verb (used with object)

datelined, datelining 

1. to furnish (a news story) with a dateline.

   He datelines his reports Damascus.

dateline

/ ˈdeɪtˌlaɪn /

noun

1. journalism the date and location of a story, placed at the top of an article

Word History and Origins

Origin of dateline¹

First recorded in 1885–90; date ¹ + line ¹

Example Sentences

The news agency made sure not to give any clue as to its sources: the article didn’t carry a byline or a dateline.

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The Associated Press also has local Palestinian stringers, and my review of its hundreds of stories on the war this year revealed a total of two deeply reported pieces on Hamas—neither datelined from Gaza.

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His Senate office released a statement — with a Jersey City, New Jersey, dateline — while he was in U.S.

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Storms of sufficient wind speed are called hurricanes if they form east of the international dateline, and typhoons if they form to the west of the line.

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This story has been corrected to note that the dateline is Philadelphia rather than Norristown.

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