Salient

Queen of Salient crowned

By Jenna Powell | 15 Oct, 2007

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.”