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A lot of things of the New World are scary or confusing to a new citizen. Perhaps the most consistent of the game mechanics is the media module. All news is created by us for us, and anyone can make an article. However, if you want the media to be your claim to fame, you'll need more than a witty satirical piece. You'll need to have:

BBCode Skills

You need to know BBCode. eRepublik BBCode is just like normal BBCode, but worse.


Link in case you can't see the image above.

Luckily you only need to know the basics, there is something to do with emails but you won't ever need to know that so let us move on.

Setting up your Newspaper

Newspapers cost the small sum of 2 gold to start, and after that, it's completely free to operate. You can find the "Create Newspaper" link on your profile, under your workplace and party. Don't worry about the details. After you create it, you can change the name and description by clicking "edit newspaper details" on your newspaper page or any of your articles.

Your paper location must be the same as your citizenship country, or you can't publish.

Worldly Knowledge


Some good things to think of before you publish:

- Proofread
Use the preview button to check your formatting, bad spelling or anything inbetween. Yes, it can be annoying, but it'll save your comments being flooded with "LOL LRN2SPELL AND WHAT NOT". If you don't trust your own eyes or are lazy, edit an old article to show off your work in progress to another eRepublikan.

- Don't write your article in eRepublik
If you don't plan on wrapping up your article in minutes, make sure you write in Notepad or a word processing program. Just a few minutes of inactivity in eRepublik will cause your login session to expire. When that happens, your publish button will send you to the homepage instead of media
glory causing you to lose your hard work, and having to wait an hour to publish again.

- Test your links
Some links will be replaced with an "unauthorized link" url by eRepublik, breaking it. No one why knows why this happens, so you need to test them all, including your article's. If your new article's link is "unauthorized", change the title to something else, and it should be fixed. If all else fails, use a link shortener.

- Prepare for negative feedback
Like anything on the internet, articles are very public and will attract the trolls of eRepublik to you. If someone has decided to target you, brush it off. Listen to praise and constructive criticism only and you will retain your sanity.

- Watch your images
eRepublik limits images to 400px width. If your picture is bigger than that, make sure you link it so people can click it to enlarge. Also, nothing too naked (if you can help it).

- Break up things
Use images or bars to break up your text. No one likes reading a giant block of text, like the one I'm making right now...

...Moving on.

A Niche

A writing niche is an aspect of writing that fits you. It's something you love to do, that you can do well, and something that appeals to a base of players. Some people like war reporting, some like educational writing, and some people like trolling. All of these have audiences that you appeal differently to.

If you're writing about something you're indifferent about, you'll write worse. It'll be written like homework. No one wants to read homework. They want excitment. Humour. Or if you're a subscriber of jamesw, BOLD.

Welcome to the glamorous world of a media mogul!


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