Using Real News Skills to Cover What Happens In WordPress, With Rae Morey
Rae Morey launched “The Repository” in 2019. It's a weekly newsletter that often breaks real news about what's happening in the WordPress ecosystem.
In this episode of the PublishPress podcast, we talked with Rae about the path she took through tech and journalism. She told us about some the challenges she's overcome to survive and grow her business over the course of 250 issues.
This episode features Rae, Steve Burge from PublishPress, and Dan Knauss from Multidots.
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Here are some of the topic we covered:
- Does Rae have a long-term goal with The Repository? Is she aiming to make it a full-time job?
- Each weekly issue has about 5 major stories, with lots of community comments, plus a couple of dozen other stories. How does Rae collect and sift through all the noise to find the key stories?
- How does The Repository earn revenue? The newsletter is remarkably light on advertising with just one key sponsor, then a group of other sponsors on the website.
- Is quality news curation and analysis appreciated and sufficiently valued in the WordPress community? Are there good models for sustaining tech journalism?
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