The item of news given the greatest prominence in a newspaper, magazine, or news broadcast.
the election is the lead story on the front page of The New York Times
Example sentencesExamples
- Read the lead story in our money section and discover an inventive way to get the down payment you need.
- Today our lead story is FEMA's top priority: housing.
- The row of news summaries at the bottom further reduces the space available to create striking lead stories.
- The issue of campaign finance will be our lead story on tomorrow's edition.
- The lead story in last week's edition detailed how the adjudicators of the contest had turned down the bid for the newspaper to participate in the contest.