The Byline Project

Okayplayer & Google Innovation Fund

The Byline Project is open-source software that publishers can install into their WordPress platform. It will streamline the reporting process, starting with receiving pitches from writers, photographers and creators, and take editors all the way through to the moment a story goes live. It will also integrate with industry-standard collaboration Google products — like Google Docs. And once stories are published, the online community can financially support content creators directly by tipping writers.

2021

with C. Hunt-Walker & Rachel Hislop for Okayplayer.

Roles

UI/UX Design for Open Source Software

OBJECTIVE

To empower local storytellers to report on issues affecting their communities by connecting journalists to financial support from a broader digital audience.

CHALLENGES

A huge need for bootstrapped and under-funded publishers and journalists to be more empowered to produce quality local journalism that represents the whole of their communities.

— LaToya Drake, Head of Media Representation at Google