dateline
dayt lahyn
- n an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian
- n a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch
- v mark with a date and place
dateline a newspaper article
- That has made it something of a holy-grail dateline for reporters covering the military.
- However, the dateline for the story I did file was quickly transformed in blogosphere reprints into a joint byline that read, "by Massimo Calabresi and Diego Garcia.
- Aside from a brief tour allowed in 1976 while Carter made noises about "demilitarizing" the region, nary a journalist has set foot on the island -- a Newsweek writer's dateline .