Dateline (Verb)
Meaning
Mark with a date and place; "dateline a newspaper article".
Classification
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting.
Examples
- The editor instructed the journalist to dateline the story as soon as it was finalized from the remote location in Africa.
- The news team used a dateline that read "Kabul, Afghanistan" to identify the origin of the report.
- A dateline with the words "Moscow, Russia" and the current date was placed at the top of the press release.
- The news anchor asked the foreign correspondent to dateline the video footage from the site of the natural disaster.
- In preparing the story for broadcast, the producer carefully datelined each segment with the relevant location and timing.