I was honored to be invited as a guest for one of the inaugural episodes of the PublishPress podcast, a new offering from Steve Burge and the team at PublishPress. They make an awesome suite of plugins aimed at making life easier for all sorts of online publishers, including many news organizations. The episode was co-hosted by Dan Knauss of Multidots.
It ended up being quite a wide-ranging conversation about what it’s been like to become the owner and publisher of a print newspaper in the midwestern US while bringing my software development and business management skills to the mix.
The episode is available in both video and audio formats:
(We talked a lot about the tech stack I’ve built and the processes and tooling involved, which was really fun, but a related regret in hindsight is that I didn’t say more about the work of my amazing team of colleagues who are the real engine that makes it all possible. I know I’ve been able to highlight them in other contexts, but I hope no one comes away from the episode with the misconception that you can run a newspaper like a one-person SaaS business; you can’t!)
I hope you get a chance to listen to it! Thanks, Steve and Dan, for having me on.
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