 Tyler Foggatt
Senior editor In journalism, a “lede” is a term that refers to the opening sentence or paragraph of a story. As the New Yorker staff writer Calvin Trillin explained in 2021, ledes can be short and punchy—think of the no-nonsense sentence at the beginning of a newspaper article—or they can be creative, surprising, and more ambitious. But, regardless of what form it takes, the lede is meant to engage readers, and to give them the information they need to understand the rest of the story. This week, The New Yorker launched The Lede, a daily column on what you need to know—a short-form piece, first thing, to help you understand the rest of the day. Our Lede stories, too, will take different forms: yesterday, the Lede was a first-person dispatch from Mohammed Hanif on the far-right riots and anti-racist counter protests in the United Kingdom. Today, it is a piece by Jessica Winter on the gaps in the Vice-Presidential candidate J. D. Vance’s memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy.” And tomorrow, we’ll have Anna Russell covering Taylor Swift’s return to London. With this new column, we’ll be reporting, analyzing, unravelling, and reassessing the most important political and cultural stories of the moment—all with the same care and nuance that you find in The New Yorker’s long-form coverage. Read today’s column: | 
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