Scott, Malcolm – Was editor of Grantham Journal

Malcolm Scott (1935-2018)

The son of a Methodist minister, Malcolm Scott, began his distinguished career as a ‘cub’ reporter at the Lincolnshire Free Press and Spalding Guardian in the 1950s.

Malcolm was a reporter in Spalding from 1954 until 1965 (broken by national service and a year in a sales job) and news editor/deputy editor from 1966 to 1972.

In 1972 he became editor of the Newmarket Journal and was later editor-in-chief of West Suffolk Newspapers for ten years before becoming managing editor of the Grantham Journal in 1984, following a takeover by EMAP. He succeeded Fred Goodliff.

His first influence at Grantham was to change the format of the Journal from broadsheet to tabloid.

He became publishing director of East Yorkshire Newspapers then managing director of Yorkshire Regional Newspapers and finally head of EMAP Anglia (West Norfolk) from 1992 to 1994.

Mr Scott took early retirement because of cancer from which he made a remarkable recovery – surviving for a further 25 years.

On his retirement Mr Scott did consultancy work and then took up writing again, winning a national award.

He lived in Lincoln with his wife Bridget and spent more time at his holiday home near Hunstanton, where he died.