How to say "editorial" in Japanese

• 社説しゃせつJLPT N2approx.Common
  nounAn editorial in the journalistic sense: an article expressing the newspaper's official stance on an issue. The nuance is the paper speaking in its own institutional voice, as its formal opinion.
  今朝けさの新聞しんぶんの社説しゃせつを読よみましたか。↗

  Have you read the leading article in today's paper?
• 論説ろんせつCommon
  nounAlso an editorial or leading article, with the nuance of a reasoned argument or commentary on current affairs; largely interchangeable with 社説 for the newspaper opinion piece.

For a newspaper's opinion piece, 社説 and 論説 are near-synonyms both meaning 'editorial'; 社説 presents it as the paper's official view, 論説 stresses the argumentation, and either is understood.

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• 社説しゃせつeditorial
• エディトリアルeditorial
• 論説ろんせつeditorial