This Is LEDE News
We are a complement, not a competitor to other media outlets in the Upper Ohio Valley, and that’s because our journalists will offer material never offered before in this area.
Our goals are simplistic – we wish to become a partner in our community by assisting with the move forward so we can finally see growth instead of the decline that’s been taking place in the Wheeling area since the 1940s. LEDE News offers several departments for our stories, and we gladly will accept and publish information from non-profits and community organizations.
We also welcome writers currently living in the Upper Ohio Valley to submit queries to gain opportunities to be published on LEDE News, and we look forward to hearing many memories from those who have moved away yet yearn to return. For our “Free Speech” department, we also will welcome, “Letters to the Editor.” Those submissions must be accompanied by the author’s name and their contact information so their identity can be confirmed by a member of our staff prior to publication.
Our writers are your neighbors and they will be telling our collective story about a region’s reality, it’s history, and the mysteries that rest in our backyards. Our coverage area will extend beyond the borders of Ohio County with ventures planned throughout East Ohio, western Pennsylvania, and throughout the northern panhandle of West Virginia.
What’s the mission statement? Well, our departments reveal that intent, do they not?
LEDE News will support this community, deliver news – and yes, at times, breaking news – and offer information about what we believe might be fun, or offer an opinion that just could push the direction into an improved trajectory. “L-E-D-E” is the original spelling for what’s defined as, “the first paragraph of a news story that usually include all the critical element of the involved incident.” We, as an entire tri-state region, have stories to tell about hope, intrigue, disaster, and determination that extend our identities and our differences.
In simpler terms, our content will offer the tell-all of the tale.
