The Lexington Herald-Leader is a Lexington, Kentucky-based newspaper. The newspaper has won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting and the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Originally Lexington had two newspapers, the Herald in the morning and the Leader in the afternoon. But beginning in the 1980's, they published a Sunday edition together and eventually merged.

On July 4 2004, the newspaper, in an effort to apologise for failing to cover the 1960s civil rights movement, published a full feature section of black-and-white pictures in commemoration.