1. a line in a newspaper or magazine article that shows the date and place where the story was written
Usage: journalism
2. the International Date Line, an imaginary line on the Earth’s surface where each new day begins
Usage: geography

1. to provide a dateline for a news story
Usage: journalism

Examples

• The article’s dateline read ‘London, March 15’.
• Every newspaper story includes a dateline showing where it was reported.
• When you cross the dateline traveling west, you skip ahead one day.
• The dateline runs roughly along the 180th meridian in the Pacific Ocean.
• The correspondent will dateline her story from the capital city.
• Ships crossing the dateline must adjust their calendars.
• The reporter datelined the breaking news from the scene.