The Nelson Mail

{{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 = File: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)

| foundation = 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; the first edition was published on 5 March 1866.{{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}} It absorbed another local paper, The Colonist, in about 1906.

Awards and nominations

In 2018, The Nelson Mail reporter Nina Hindmarsh won Best Junior Reporter at the 2018 Voyager Media Awards.{{Cite web|url=https://voyagermediaawards.nz/2018-winners|title=2018 winners|website=Voyager Media Awards|language=en-NZ|access-date=2020-03-01}}

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.{{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}}
Also in 2019, Fastier won the News Photography (Regional) Award and the News Photography (Sports) Award from News Media Works.{{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}}

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