Dateline

A dateline is the city, region and date at the start of a press release's first paragraph, showing where and when the news was issued.

Updated October 22, 2026 · Citable

What Dateline means

Datelines follow news style, often with the region and the distribution service named.

Example

AUSTIN, Texas, Oct. 22, 2026 /Newswire/ -- Example Inc. today announced...

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