Rae Morey

Publisher & Editor-in-Chief · The Repository

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Episodes: E167
Views: 245
Latest aired: Sep 17, 2026
Runtime: 40:53

Episode 167 · Sep 17, 2026 · 40:53 · 245 views

Independent WordPress Journalism

In WP Legends Episode 167, Rae Morey shares her journey from laying out a 20-cent community newsletter by hand at age 14 in rural Tasmania to becoming Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of The Repository, the independent news publication she quietly ran nights and weekends for five years before finally going full-time after WordCamp Asia 2024 in Taipei.

They dig into what it took to keep an independent WordPress newsroom alive through a newborn, a pandemic, and a full-time career, why she built The Repository around working with up to 10 sponsors at once instead of just one, and why she believes the WordPress ecosystem, now powering over 40% of the web, still doesn't have enough serious journalism covering it.

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