{{Short description|New Zealand newspaper}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2024}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = The Nelson Mail | image = Nelson Mail 109.JPG | caption = The old and the new building of ''The Nelson Mail'' | type = 4 days a week (Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday) newspaper | format = Tabloid (Monday, Wednesday and Friday) Broadsheet (Saturday) | founded = 5 March 1866 | owners = Stuff Ltd | headquarters = Nelson, New Zealand | editor = Victoria Guild | website = [https://www.thepress.co.nz/nelson The Nelson Mail] }} '''''The Nelson Mail''''' is a 4-day a week newspaper in Nelson, New Zealand, owned by media business Stuff Ltd. It was founded in 1866 as '''''The Nelson Evening Mail'''''.
==History== The first edition of ''The Nelson Evening Mail'' was published on 5 March 1866.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Nelson Evening Mail'' |url= http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=CL1.NEM |publisher=National Library of New Zealand |access-date=8 November 2013}}</ref> The owner was the printer Robert Lucas.<ref name="PapersPast" /> Two paper existed already in Nelson at that time: ''The Nelson Examiner'' (founded in 1842) and ''The Colonist'' (founded in 1857). With the new newspaper immediately making an impact, the older newspapers became dailies, but that could not stop their slow decline.<ref name="PapersPast" /> The last edition of ''The Nelson Examiner'' was issued on 15 January 1874,<ref>{{cite news |title=Nelson Daily Examiner |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NENZC18740115.2.19.2 |access-date=24 October 2025 |work=The Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle |volume=XXXIII |issue=12 |date=15 January 1874 |page=3}}</ref> and ''The Colonist'' was bought by ''The Nelson Evening Mail'' in 1920 and its last edition was published on 1 May of that year.<ref name="PapersPast">{{cite web |title=The Nelson Evening Mail |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/nelson-evening-mail |publisher=PapersPast |access-date=24 October 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=The Colonist |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/colonist |publisher=PapersPast |access-date=24 October 2025}}</ref>
The Lucas family sold the newspaper to Independent Newspapers (INL) in 1993.<ref name="PapersPast" /> The new owners changed the title of the newspaper to ''The Nelson Mail'' in 1995 when it became a morning newspaper.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Derby |first1=Mark |title=First newspapers, 1839–1860 |url= https://teara.govt.nz/en/newspapers/page-1 |publisher=Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand |access-date=24 October 2025 |date=11 August 2014}}</ref> From 31 July 2017, the publishing schedule was cut back to Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday.<ref>{{cite news |title=New publishing model for Nelson Mail announced |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/93618291/new-publishing-model-for-nelson-mail-announced |access-date=24 October 2025 |work=Stuff |date=13 June 2017}}</ref> As of 2025, the Saturday newspaper being published is Stuff's sister-publication ''The Press''.
== Awards and nominations == In 2018, ''The Nelson Mail'' reporter Nina Hindmarsh won Best Junior Reporter at the 2018 Voyager Media Awards.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://voyagermediaawards.nz/2018-winners|title=2018 winners|website=Voyager Media Awards|language=en-NZ|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref>
In 2019, ''The Nelson Mail'' photographer Braden Fastier was the joint winner of Photographer of the Year at the 2019 Voyager Media Awards. Fastier also won the Best Photography (News and/or Sport) Award at the same event.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://voyagermediaawards.nz/photography-winners-2019|title=Photography Winners 2019|website=Voyager Media Awards|language=en-NZ|access-date=2020-03-01}}</ref><br />Also in 2019, Fastier won the News Photography (Regional) Award and the News Photography (Sports) Award from News Media Works.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://newsmediaworks.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/News-Media-Awards-Winner-2019.pdf|title=2019 News Media Awards|website=News Media Works|access-date=29 Feb 2020}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|The Nelson Mail}} *{{Official website|https://www.thepress.co.nz/nelson}}
{{NZ newspaper}} {{Stuff}} {{Nelson, New Zealand}}
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