A year on, Rotorua Daily Post compact paper is good fit

A year ago today Rotorua Daily Post staff, including key account manager Emma Walls (right), delivered the first compact newspaper to prominent subscribers, like Aunty Bea Yates. Photo/File

Today marks one year since Rotorua Daily Post readers were first able to get their hands on a compact version of the newspaper in time to read it with their morning cup of coffee.

Yes, it's been 12 months since changes were made that saw the newspaper move from the larger broadsheet form to compact size and delivered in the morning.

They are changes which Rotorua children's author and local personality Aunty Bea Yates said had made the newspaper "even more fantastic".

Aunty Bea, who has been a Rotorua Daily Post subscriber for many years, said the newspaper's smaller layout had made it much easier to read.

"It's just fabulous, it's so easy to read, I don't have to clumsily fumble with big bulky pages and it doesn't take up all the room on the table when I'm having my cup of tea in the morning," she said.

"I become so used to it [the new layout], when we get the big paper on a Saturday, it's a bit of a surprise. I think it's been a really good change.

"I can't be without my Daily Post."

Rotorua MP Todd McClay said he enjoyed being able to read the Rotorua Daily Postwhile eating his breakfast.

He said the changes had gone exceptionally well and had been well received by the local community over the last year.

"It's hard to believe a year's gone by, it's come so fast. I think the changes have been really positive for the Rotorua Daily Post and its readers," he said.

"I think the Rotorua Daily Postdeserves a big 'well done', it's doing very well at a time when a lot of newspapers might not be. Congratulations."

Editor Kim Gillespie said the new format had been great to work with, and readers had responded well to both the new design and the new delivery time.