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dateline

American

[deyt-lahyn] / ˈdeɪtˌlaɪn /

noun

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

to furnish (a news story) with a dateline.

He datelines his reports Damascus.

dateline British

/ ˈdeɪtˌlaɪn /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of dateline

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

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

“Everybody west of the international dateline is highly attuned to assuring that China doesn’t miscalculate.”

From Washington Times • Aug. 9, 2023

Tonga is an archipelago of 176 islands with a population of just over 100,000 people, situated southeast of Fiji and just west of the international dateline.

From Reuters • Nov. 3, 2022

After large earthquakes, news sites republish the same articles about how to report malfunctioning loudspeakers, simply updating the dateline.

From Slate • Sep. 3, 2022

The United Mine Workers of America petitioned for a special prosecutor in an effort to insure an unbiased prosecution, dateline: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1923.

From "Fannie Never Flinched" by Mary Cronk Farrell

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