There's still "Anführer", which is a leader of a group and makes sense to me, as opposed to "leadership" without any qualifiers. That is, "leadership" seems to

There's still "Anführer", which is a leader of a group and makes sense to me, as opposed to "leadership" without any qualifiers. That is, "leadership" seems to be often used not to describe the fact that someone leads or is in the lead, but for some shifting cloud of properties that lead to them being leader or in the lead, or making it a good thing they are. Totally off-topic, but my pet peeve of American English. I bet there's a German equivalent, but I sleep better not knowing it (it's not "Führerschaft", that I know). Come to think of it, English "news" is more like the German "Neuigkeiten", while "Nachrichten" is more like the English "messages". But German news are as sensationalistic as everywhere else, so that seems to have no effect.