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After seeing This article in the eUK media we at the MoHA thought it would be nice to rewrite an old article on how to make the most of your newspaper. Who knows; maybe this guide will help you get a Media Mogul in the future. 🙂

So you've spent 2g on a newspaper and have thought of the article you'd like to write. The first thing you need to consider is the Layout.

Layout

Any successful Media Mogul will tell you that the most important thing to do when writing an article is to think about layout. You should be splitting up the big text bits with a few images to try and make it a bit more easy on the eyes. The majority of people do not want to read massive amounts of text so trying to keep things on the short side would be best.


Keeping the image vaguely related to the content helps too. 🙂

Style
You need to consider the style of your writing. This especially applies to the spelling, punctuation and grammar. Keeping your newspaper consistent with decent spelling and grammar can really help lift an article up. When a reader sees a poorly written article it can put them off. By having consistency it can ensure that your readers come back article after article to read your work.
As a Media Mogul myself I can tell you one of the main things that I don’t like to see in articles is lack of capitalisation and full stops. Many a time I’ve seen potential ruined by this. Another issue is spelling. I would suggest that if you plan on releasing an article, run it through a spell checker. I myself use Microsoft word to check my articles before releasing them.



The two things above are relatively easy to understand and get the hang of, however the thing that many people struggle with is the formatting of their article.

Formatting
Articles in eRepublik are formatted using BBCodes. Here are the codes for various different things you can put in articles.

Simply remove the . inside the sets of brackets to use:

Italic - [i.]Italic Text Here[/i.]

Bold - [b.]Bold Text Here[/b.]

Underline - [u.]Underline Text Here[/u.]

You can combine these codes by putting enclosing the first code with the secon😛

Bold Underline - [u.][b.]Bold Underline Text Here[/b.][/u.]

You can also put in links:

http://forums.erepublik.co.uk/index.php - [url]URL Here[/url.]

You can replace the URL with text to make it look neater:

[/url]Link text here - [.url😕ink Here]Link Text Here[/url.]

Inserting Images:

- [img]Image URL Here[/img]

Images can link to things:



[url.😕ink Here][img]Image URL Here[/img]

That's it really, these codes can be combined, link text can be bold, you can have images and text together for one link, just add in text after the Image code enclosed by the URL code and many other combinations.

Kevy Kev Kev Junior Shabado
uM of Media (MoHA)