TMR
The Monthly Report is a discord news station which uniquely, observes a single nation for a months time, documenting their national and international news into one single channel.
The Monthly Report offers several forms of news including but not limited to: observing a single nation for a month, exclusive podcast interviews with EMC players and non fiction and fiction articles/stories on EMC events.
Chronological Order of Events
Founding
The Monthly Report was founded on March 14th of 2024 by mandimcflyyt who stated that he came up with the idea "in writing class", Mandi quickly advertised the new news station and gained 30 members within 3 days. Mandi also started the first wave of nations which were Cascadia, the Philippines and Australia.
Invite Competition
Following chronological order, the first TMR invite competition was announced with the prizes being as followed: 1st place gained one month nitro, with 2nd and 3rd place getting a one month basic nitro plan. The competition ended with The Walking Banks, Princeling7 and Panth_r winning and securing the prizes.
Ownership Changes
When founder Mandi was finally unbanned from the EMC Minecraft server, he decided to step down as owner and give the news station to his head staff Hetansh. Hetansh promptly sold the organization just 3 days later to Epistolarian for a total of 292 EMC gold. Epistolarian got straight to work and added stocks, making TMR a public company, changed the logo due to a lack of copyright over the old logo and put in new place many more new systems. After almost a week of owning TMR Epistolarian yet again sold the company to MasterEWild in its entirety. MasterEWild aimed to buy TMR due to wanting to in his words "wanting to bring it back to its former glory, its meant to be a news station and not a company". After MasterEWild bought TMR he updated the Management Team, adding Panth_r and Capitranfra as well as the founder Mandi, removed stocks, reverted the logo, added a new role and automated things with bots. Over the next couple months, MasterEWild continued to introduce new features like the Community Feed and the role of Media Maker. MasterEWild also kept the TMR's main focus, nation reports going continuing the reports on the Huaxia Union, Vermont and Zealandia and facilitating the start of the reports on ETRA and Sapmi. On August 23rd 2024, MasterEWild announced his resignation as The Monthly Report's Editor in Chief due to being busy with other EMC projects. Because of this, MasterEWild gave TMR to desiredcheese92, the creator of the original TMR logo. With this announcement, MasterEWild also announced the creation of the Executive Management Team, a step above the Management Team and a step below the Editor in Chief serving as the second in command. MasterEWild and Mandi are currently the only members of the Executive Management Team. For the last ownership change to date, on September 28th 2024 desiredcheese92 made Pigcookieman56 the Editor in Chief. Note that this is not an official ownership change as desiredcheese92 retained ownership of the server.
Services
Podcasts
TMR holds podcasts with notable EMC players to ask them about their experiences and learn more about how they got to where they are today. Currently, there are 4 episodes of The Monthly Report's podcasts with episodes on Dracnoian, olsaritsu, Princeling7 and MasterEWild.
Articles
Articles aim to inform or entertain the general public on matters related to EMC. Currently, 2 articles have been written by Panth_r and Capitanfra respectively.
Nation Observations
As mentioned earlier, The Monthly Report's main focus is to observe a nation's news for one month and log it into a channel, typically TMR has several nations going at once. This style allows for EMC players to get a unique spin on the typical EMC news type. All nation's that have previously been reported on are as follows: Santa Cruz, the Persian Empire, Kola, Havaiki, Cascadia, Australia, the Philippines, Zealandia, Vermont, the Huaxia Union (expanded from just Dian), ETRA, Sapmi, NA, and Cuba. At the moment, the nations are Baltic and Kalaallit Nunaat
Polls
Sometimes, polls are made by writers to get information on what the community thinks on a specific topic. These polls are meant to help writers and engage readers.
Community Feed
A feed created MasterEWild to post important events hosted throughout the EMC world.
Monthly Summaries
The monthly summary feed is a service started by desiredcheese92 that at the end of each month, will have a post including the 10 most important news stories of the month put in a dedicated channel.
Positions
TMR has several staff positions players can apply for, they are as follows in order of authority:
- Owner - Currently desiredcheese92
- Editor in Chief - Currently Pigcookieman92
- Executive Management Team - Currently, MasterEWild, desirecheese92 and Pigcookieman92
- Management Team - Currently MasterEWild, desiredcheese92 and Pigcookieman92
- Writer/Podcaster/Missionary/Media Maker - Currently Cap Worm, d4rker, Mactomorrow, Sinelin, Panth_r, TheClayTaco, Capitanfra, CyberPro, traficcone, normal_spinx, MasterEWild, KosmikKaktus and kingsylver
Future Plans
TMR intends to continue to grow and adapt to continue to take a unique spin on news and provide quality work for the EMC community.
Wiki Page written by MasterEWild and last updated on October 4th 2024