dateliner

dateline +‎ -er

dateliner (plural dateliners)

1. (journalism) An article that is published under a dateline.
   • 1946, Robert Miller Neal, Editing the Small City Daily, page 224:

     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.

   • 1958, Publication - Issues 1-134, page 93:

     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.

   • 1964, Radio Liberty Research Paper - Issues 2-33:

     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.

2. (journalism) A foreign correspondent; one who writes the dateliner.
   • 1972, Richard Hughes, Foreign devil: thirty years of reporting from the Far East, page 154:

     The doughty monocled Jacques Marcuse, who has been Agence France-Presse dateliner in Peking before and after 'liberation', has summed up life inside communist China with gallic force and lucidity:

• entrailed, interdeal, tail-ender, tailender, tradeline