dateline
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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
His Senate office released a statement — with a Jersey City, New Jersey, dateline — while he was in U.S.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2024
“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
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
The Associated Press story about Gershkovich’s arrest, as well as a separate profile of the journalist, carried no bylines or datelines.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
It wasn’t The Washington Post that was thick with ads, peppered with datelines from around the world, full of insider gossip, piercing editorial cartoons and the proclamations of officialdom.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2019
It was Gilbert, not Griffin, who wanted to hire Blatt, a coaching savant with championship rings from a host of international datelines like Israel and Russia.
From New York Times ● Jun. 3, 2017
Without reading the articles or double-checking datelines, many Facebook users will impulse-click and share articles they didn’t even read, further spreading the contagion.
From Salon ● Nov. 22, 2016
The postwar datelines rattle through one’s mind – 1979, 1997, 2010 – and come nowhere near.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 24, 2016
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
That statement is inaccurate, as the gunman photo was taken June 10, while storefront images it was melded with were datelined May 30 by Getty Images.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2020
She’d previously worked on a forfeiture case in Massachusetts, which the group had made famous—George Will even wrote a datelined column about it.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2014
In a column by Leonard Lyon of the New York Post datelined Frankfurt, my father recounted how one Reichsbank official snickered, saying: “You’ll never do it. The walls are too thick.”
From Washington Post
After last Sunday’s episode, which featured the death of a central character and just happened to be datelined June 24, 2013, the Web was deluged with screeds denouncing not only the show but its creator.
From Newsweek
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