Editing Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia (section)

===Media===
The only daily newspaper of Hamm printed there, is the ''Westfälischer Anzeiger''. At first, a weekly newspaper in Hamm was the ''Kreis Hammsches Wochenblatt'' founded by Heinich Jakob Grote in 1822. Its name was changed in 1848 to ''Westfälischer Anzeiger''. A second newspaper appeared, founded by the Thiemann family, the ''Westfälische Kurier''. Both co-existed until the end of the Second World War. After the War both newspapers were combined and named ''Westfälischer Anzeiger und Kurier''. In the 1960s another name-change made the ''Westfälischer Anzeiger''. This newspaper is the mantle of several smaller regional newspapers; together, they had a total 153,428 copies in 2004. In the 1970s the ''Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' unsuccessfully tried to establish its own daily newspaper.

Two weekly newspapers appear in Hamm: the ''Stadtanzeiger'' from the ''Westfälischer Anzeiger'' with a total of 384.000 copies, and the ''Sonntags-Rundblick'' by a medium-sized local company.

Since 1990 the local radio station "Radio Lippewelle Hamm" is on air and number one radio station of the local radios in NRW. 
On 3 October 1993 the "Offener Kanal Hamm" started broadcasting; it is a small TV project by people for the people, started through the federal state.