Future Nelson Mail: your feedback

My family has always been an avid reader of newspapers & my husband & I have subscribed to the Nelson Mail for over 50 years.

1. Please keep a hard copy newspaper for people to read in hand. 2. A tabloid size would be ideal. 3. 4 or 5 days a week would be OK as it would give you time to read other things, as I always have to read every word in the Mail.

4. Could every page have the page number in big numbers, instead of some with minute numbers, eg last night pages 5, 7, 8 & 9 were minuscule. Why?

5. I would like the family announcements to be on the back page of the first or 2nd supplement, instead of inside the back supplement amongst other stuff.

Thanks for the opportunity to send in feed back on the Mail.

I enjoy and support the Nelson Mail. However if things have to change why not continue to publish daily but do it as a supplement to the Christchurch Press.

The Otago Daily Times publishes daily supplement sections for the Queenstown/ Central Otago area and I can see a similar, if not larger section becoming part of the Press publication covering the Nelson/ Tasman area.

The Press already has a small but established distribution network throughout our region and I see this as a reasonable comprise to keeping the Nelson Mail and its news coming to us 6 days a week, albeit a morning supplement publication.

Nelson has enjoyed excellent independent journalism in the past and we’re in the ironic age where that is both under increasing threat, and increasingly needed (as highlighted by today’s excellent editorial on Nelson City Council’s dubious incipient media policy).

And to help achieve such quality, please also improve the user experience on the digital edition. It flicks in and out of different modes too easily, scrolls erratically, and the print options are very clunky.

Congratulations on winning newspaper of the year award. Your paper does a great job reporting the news of the region.

It’s disappointing to hear changes are coming. I would far rather read a print version than on-line. I quite often go to a cafe to read in depth articles about foreign news in the Dominion Post and The Press. If you have to reduce the frequency, why not publish a newspaper for the Top of the South.