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dateline

[ UK /dˈe‍ɪtla‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /ˈdeɪtˌɫaɪn/ ]
VERB
  1. mark with a date and place
    dateline a newspaper article
NOUN
  1. a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch
  2. an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian

How To Use dateline In A Sentence

  • His journalistic coups and exotic datelines made his old colleagues proud.
  • I think with the dateline it's yesterday there when it's today -here. DALE BROWN'S DREAMLAND (5) STRIKE ZONE
  • I read the Times story about Bina48 on July 4th; it was datelined Bristol, VT. Reese Schonfeld: Robots: The New York Times vs. WPTZ
  • The 7 o'clock time slot was taken by a first-run 60 Minutes (9.20 million viewers) against a special pregame edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live (8.67 million) and a Dateline NBC repeat (3.82 million). Ratings: NBA Championship Dunks the Competition; Tonys About Even With Last Year
  • You know, from Doha, from Central Command, it was a convenient dateline to wrap the big picture but without all the different elements, it would have been absolutely hopeless.
  • With the Seoul Olympics just around the corner, the amount of copy with a Seoul dateline was amazing.
  • Page 23 has a title, a subtitle (which ends in a full stop, perhaps qualifying it as a sentence), and a dateline before anything which would qualify as body text.
  • Is it OK to use a dateline if the reporter did an interview in that town, even if it wasn't the most important interview of the story?
  • For instance, doing a story out of the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, I purposely avoided factories in the capital, Port Louis, instead traveling to the less well known but more picturesquely named Curepipe, so my dateline could read: CUREPIPE, Mauritius. The House at Sugar Beach
  • At least one editor said he uses datelines to tell readers where the news occurred, and he often puts datelines and bylines on stories in which the reporter remained back in the office and worked the phones.
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