Editing Grantham (section)

=== Media ===
[[File:Grantham Radio Station - geograph.org.uk - 608243.jpg|thumb|Grantham Radio Station, owned by [[NATS Holdings|NATS]] (En Route) Limited, for [[radio navigation]] for aircraft, and is situated in the north of [[Waltham on the Wolds|Waltham]] near the [[Sproxton, Leicestershire|Sproxton]] parish boundary]]Grantham's local newspaper, the ''Grantham Journal'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/|title=The Latest News & Sport From Grantham|website=Grantham Journal}}</ref> first went on sale in 1854 as ''The Grantham Journal of Useful, Instructive and Entertaining Knowledge and Monthly Advertiser''.  It was founded by Henry Escritt, a Yorkshireman by birth, who moved to the area in 1861. The ''Journal'' is owned by Iliffe Media (formerly by [[Johnston Press]]), and has a sister newspaper in [[Melton Mowbray]], the ''Melton Times''. In the 1960s and earlier it produced the ''Melton Journal'' and ''Rutland Journal'', both versions of the main paper.

[[David Wood (journalist)|David Wood]] (1914–1990), former political editor of ''[[The Times]]'' (working under Sir [[William Haley]]), started out at the ''Grantham Journal''.

Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC East Midlands]] and [[BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire]] on BBC One, and by [[ITV Central]] and [[ITV Yorkshire]] on ITV1.

Radio stations that broadcast to the town are [[BBC Radio Lincolnshire]] and [[Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire|Greatest Hits Radio Lincolnshire]]. Grantham also has a full-time community radio station, [[Gravity FM]]. The station has its own studios in Riverside Walk, on the western side of Grantham College. It is operated by local volunteers.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gravityfm.net |url=http://www.gravityfm.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114053400/http://www.gravityfm.net/ |archive-date=14 January 2014 |access-date=21 June 2017 }}</ref>