dateliner

plural dateliners

1. journalismAn article that is published under a dateline.

   The telegraph editor can use the undated as the top of the weather story and tack as many dateliners as he cares on the bottom, with the best coming first.

   1946, Robert Miller Neal, Editing the Small City Daily, page 224

   2 more examples

   A second Punta del Este dateliner, by Juan de Onis, quoted Secretary of State Dean Rusk giving the official U. S. view, which had already been reported extensively by Kenworthy and Szuie.

   1958, Publication - Issues 1-134, page 93

   Pr. (6/13) carries TASS dateliner from Damascus citing new aggression by Israel along Syrian -Israeli front, and states that Israeli forces began move into Syrian territory as UN observers arrived in El Quneitra region.

   1964, Radio Liberty Research Paper - Issues 2-33