DATELINE

dateline

(noun) a line at the beginning of a news article giving the date and place of origin of the news dispatch

dateline, date line, International Date Line

(noun) an imaginary line on the surface of the earth following (approximately) the 180th meridian

dateline, datemark, date-mark

(verb) mark with a date and place; “dateline a newspaper article”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

dateline (plural datelines)

(journalism) A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters.

Verb

dateline (third-person singular simple present datelines, present participle datelining, simple past and past participle datelined)

To attach a dateline to a particular document