Editing Nelson, New Zealand (section)

== Media ==
''[[The Nelson Examiner]]'' was the first newspaper published in the South Island. It was established by [[Charles Elliott (New Zealand politician)|Charles Elliott]] (1811–1876) in 1842, within a few weeks of [[New Zealand Company]] settlers arriving in Nelson.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=CL1.NENZC |title=Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle |work=Papers Past |publisher=National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga Aotearoa |access-date=30 November 2019 |archive-date=30 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430065105/http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=CL1.NENZC |url-status=live }}</ref> Other early newspapers were ''The Colonist'' and the ''[[Nelson Evening Mail]]''. Today, [[Stuff (company)|Stuff Ltd]] publishes the ''[[Nelson Mail]]'' four days a week, and the community paper ''The Nelson Tasman Leader'' weekly. The city's largest circulating newspaper is the locally owned ''Nelson Weekly'', which is published every Wednesday.

''[[WildTomato (magazine)|WildTomato]]'' was a glossy monthly lifestyle magazine focused on the Nelson and Marlborough regions. It was launched by Murray Farquhar as a 16-page local magazine in Nelson in July 2006, and put into liquidation in March 2021.<ref>NZ Companies Office – LIQUIDATOR’S FIRST REPORT</ref>

The city is served by all major national radio and television stations, with terrestrial television ([[Freeview (New Zealand)|Freeview]]) and FM radio. Local radio stations include The Hits (formerly [[Radio Nelson]]), [[More FM]] (formerly [[Fifeshire FM]]), The Breeze, [[ZM (New Zealand)|ZM]] (formerly [[The Planet 97FM]]) and community station [[Fresh FM (New Zealand)|Fresh FM]]. The city has one local television station, [[Mainland Television]].