Tristan Egarr has been crowned Queen (or Editor) of Salient for 2008.
Egarr says he wants to take Salient in “a slightly new direction” next year.
Egarr has his Honours in History from Otago, and helped Salient win the Best Feature Content award at the ASPAs recently, as well as placing second for Best Humour Content.
“It’s election year [next year] so I plan to fully utilise the Salient [Parliamentary] press pass,” says Egarr, who plans to send a journalist to report on the goings-on in the Beehive. He says “even if you don’t care about politics it should be a good read.” He also wants to expand the ‘funny’ sections by including more cartoons and hiring new columnists to entertain students.
“A more political student magazine” is Egarr’s vision for Salient, but he also highlights the importance of “not taking itself too seriously.”
Editor Steve Nicoll says that Tristan is a great choice for editor and wishes him good luck.
“Tristan has impressive skills as a writer and has produced clever ideas and initiative as part of this year’s Salient team. He’s a top bloke. Go and work for him”
Nicoll described his journey as Salient Editor as “challenging, but altogether rewarding and is thankful for the large number of contributors who have played a part in Salient 2007”
“I’m particularly pleased by the high interest with Salient by outside media this year.”
Egarr is “really enthusastic” to take the reins of Salient but concedes “Steve will definitely be a hard act to follow.”
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fuck, i hope he gets rid of perigo otherwise i’ma have to open a can of whupass
I was thinking of getting him to write Opera reviews…
more like oprah reviews
but concedes “Steve will definitely be a hard act to follow.â€
lol
“Steve will definitely be a hard act to follow.â€
Salient is fucked.
the smart money was on nicola kean, what happened there?
she was too much of a tall poppy
I notice a statement accusing me of being an easy-to-control tool has been removed from this comments thread.
I would like to voice my disapproval of the censorship of any criticism against the magazine or myself.
voice your disapproval then, see what good it does
you can’t change the system
I don’t think my comment was removed because of the Tristan comment:
“Also, Tristan is a more easily controlled tool (not such a threat to an easy target like Cosgrove).”
It was removed because of the prior sentence which would have been particularly embarrassing (but true) for Steve.
reprint the comment in full so we can all see it
in the interests of freedom of speech
Which staff did he harass?
I think young and female was the criteria. Though his “friendship” with Archer seemed a little dubious.
it’s not exactly like salient could get any worse
Wait. Nicola didn’t get the job? Tristan Egarr did? The one who wrote about the joys of getting stoned and listening to Sublime? Oh, man. Cosgrove is President?
Steve Nicoll was the worst Salient Editor, in the world. “Hard act to follow” made me choke on my tea. Salient was awful this year. And what good bits in there were lost by the fact that Steve didn’t have a fucking clue how to order a magazine, and the design sucked.
He dresses like a prison inmate too.
Wow that comment got removed again … the one about Steve having to go to the Department of Labour for harassing one of his female colleagues. Nice editorial policy by the way
Steve, if people want to talk about you then they will talk about you.
Censoring only confirms their suspicion that you’ve something to hide.
fuck censorship
Steve stop manufacturing consent
who cares steve is gone burger
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gone but still censoring
Sexual harassment, starting fights, getting kicked out of pubs and generally being a loser – Steve Nicoll you are a joke.
http://wellingtonista.com/
Golly gosh, that’s a wee bit embarassing.
That’s our Steve!
Err, Sieve, I think the specific link you were after was http://wellingtonista.com/fiiiiight, not the Wellingtonista in general. You don’t represent us, we don’t know who you are, and your comment could have been confusing in that regard.
And double errr, I meant http://wellingtonista.com/fiiiiight , no comma.
Steve I like you and you have been a good president of VUWSA
so this is how i am remebered..
Steve I thot you were dead!
I am
my bones now lie rotting in the mount s t cemetery
every hour my former readership come and defecate on my crypt
poor steve :<
steve’s got the wandering eye do do do do doo