The place-names at the beginning of a story that tell the reader where the story occurred. A dateline includes the name of a city or town, and sometimes the country. Before high-speed transmission of data, it also included the date, which is why it is called a "dateline."
an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian
a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch
mark with a date and place; "dateline a newspaper article"
a short piece of text included in news articles that describes where and when the story was filed, though the date is often omitted
A HYPOTHETICAL LINE APPROXIMATELY ALONG THE 180TH MERIDIAN DESIGNATED AS THE PLACE WHERE EACH CALENDAR DAY BEGINS.
A term for the line at the beginning of a story telling where the story originated; also known as a placeline.
The words at the beginning of a news article that tell when and where the story was written.
Place and date of an article's origin that appears at the beginning of the first paragraph of an article.
contains a brief description of the place, date, time, etc., of production of a letter, newspaper story, or other work, prefixed or suffixed to it as a kind of heading or trailer.
use city, state (province), and country. When referring to one of the international cities sited in the Associated Press Stylebook, just use the city. (i.e. no location explanation needed for well-known cities such as London, Tokyo, etc.)
One or a few words at the start of an article that often indicate where it was reported from. Nortmally set off from the body copy with a dash.
The city or place designation at the beginning of a story. Some newspapers strictly enforce a rule that the dateline must say where the reporter was when the story was gathered. A foreign story gathered by phone at home, then, might run with no dateline.
The line at the beginning of a story giving the place and date of the reported incident
The first words in lead of a story which give name of city from which the story was sent.