leading article
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Newspapers, printing, publishingleading articleleading ar‧ti‧cle /ˌliːdɪŋ ˈɑːtɪkəl $ -ˈɑːr-/ noun [countable] British EnglishTCN a piece of writing in a newspaper giving the paper’s opinion on a subject SYN editorialExamples from the Corpusleading article• Its leading article reminded me of Commander Courtney's warnings.• Then came the news that the Daily Mail compositors had refused to set an offending leading article.