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A '''dateline''' is a brief piece of text included in [[news]] articles that describes where and when the story was written or filed,<ref name="BarbieStuart2010">{{cite book|last1=Zelizer |first1= Barbie|last2=Allan |first2= Stuart|title=Keywords in News and Journalism Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kl6iw6HiDIkC&pg=PA29|year= 2010 |location= Milton Keynes |publisher= Open University Press |isbn=978-0-335-22183-7|page=29}}</ref> though the date is often omitted. In the case of articles reprinted from [[wire service]]s, the distributing organization is also included (though the originating one is not). Datelines are traditionally placed on the first line of the text of the article, before the first sentence.

==Format==
The location appears first, usually starting with the [[city]] in which the [[reporter]] has written or dispatched the report.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Moos|first1=Julie|title=Datelines, Bylines, Other Lines|url=http://www.poynter.org/2003/datelines-bylines-other-lines/11797/|publisher=Poynter Institute|access-date=19 February 2017}}</ref> City names are usually printed in uppercase, though this can vary from one publication to another. The [[political division]] and/or [[nation]] the city is in may follow, but they may be dropped if the city name is widely recognizable due to its size or political importance (a national [[Capital (political)|capital]], for instance). The date of the report comes after, followed by an [[em dash]] surrounded by spaces, and then the article.

A typical newspaper dateline might read: 
:<code>BEIRUT, Lebanon, June 2 — The outlook was uncertain today as ...</code>

The same story if pulled from the [[Associated Press]] (AP) wire might appear as:
:<code>BEIRUT (AP) — The outlook was uncertain today as ...</code>

Datelines can take on some unusual forms. When reporters collaborate on a story, two different locations might be listed.<ref name="Martin2010">{{cite book|first=Paul |last= Martin|title=The Wall Street Journal Essential Guide to Business Style and Usage|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MqdSIpKgEZMC&pg=PA34|year=2010 |location= New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-4516-0364-4|page=34}}</ref> The Associated Press omits a dateline "when a story has been assembled from sources in widely separate areas".<ref>{{cite book |editor-last= Goldstein |editor-first= Norm |year= 1998 |title= The Associated Press Stylebook and Libel Manual |edition= 33rd |location= New York |publisher= Associated Press |page=58 |isbn= 0-917360-16-8}}</ref> In other cases, the exact location may be unknown or intentionally imprecise, such as when covering [[military]] operations while on a [[ship]] at sea or following an invasion force, or when covering a press conference aboard an airplane.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pope Acknowledges Priests and Bishops Have Sexually Abused Nuns|first=Jason|last=Horowitz|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 5, 2019|access-date=February 5, 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/world/europe/pope-nuns-sexual-abuse.html|quote=ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE}}</ref>

=={{anchor|Lockout}}Other media==
The concept of a dateline has been adapted to [[television]]. Reporters on news programs might have their location mentioned in an introduction from the [[news anchor]]:
:<code>"Here now from Albuquerque, New Mexico, is reporter Nigel Culpepper"</code>
A field reporter might also end his stories by combining the location from where he filed the report with a "lockout" (the last thing a reporter says in the report, and includes his name and station ID, in addition to a news branding such as ''[[Eyewitness News]]''); especially if the segment is recorded and not live. For example, the last bit of a report could sound like:
:<code>"... prompting an investigation into the matter. Richard Morris, BBC News, London."</code>

A number of [[current affairs (news format)|current affairs]] TV shows have ''[[Dateline (disambiguation)|dateline]]'' as part of their name.

==See also==
* [[Byline]]

==References==
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[[Category:Newspaper terminology]]

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