the.com/dateline
the byline's quieter cousin, announcing where the news happened before telling you what did.
means a short line at the start of a news story stating the place, and sometimes date, from which it was reported.
from newspapers adopted the format in the 1800s when reporters filed by telegraph, and readers needed instant proof the story wasn't just phoned in from the newsroom down the street.
ap stylerequires all-caps city name, sometimes country
credibility signalproves reporter was physically present
disappearing actremote reporting has made real ones rarer
nyt exceptionsome cities run dateline-free by long tradition
for instance
nbc show dateline — 1992 newsmagazine borrowed the word for gravitas
new york times moscow — cold war datelines doubled as geopolitical flexes