dateline

Story origin marker

A dateline is the line at the beginning of a news article giving the place and sometimes the date of origin: MOSCOW — Russian officials announced today... .

The dateline establishes where a reporter filed the story, lending geographic credibility to the account.

As a verb, to dateline is to mark with such a line: The dispatch was datelined from Kabul.

Separately, the International Date Line is the imaginary line in the Pacific where the calendar date changes.

journalism

byline

Article author identification

headlineNews article title
reportingConveying documented information
correspondentJournalist covering distant events

newsroom · news · coverage · article · feature · column · press · scoop · lede · newspaper

broadcast

live

To exist or dwell

televisionBroadcast viewing device
radioElectromagnetic wave receiver
networkInterconnected system

remote · on-location · foreign · bureau · correspondent · report · footage · telecast · satellite · field reporting

reference

citation

Mention of a source

sourcePoint of origin
attributionAssigning origin or cause
archiveStored historical records

publication · periodical · volume · issue · timestamp · documentation · provenance · masthead · header

location

Pacific

Earth's vastest ocean

meridianPole-to-pole great circle
longitudeEast-west angular distance
hemisphereHalf of a ball

crossing · Fiji · Samoa · Tonga · Kiribati · east-west · geography · coordinates · cartography

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