A Bylined Article is your own first-person article, written in your own words and published under your name.
As of October 1, 2026, Bylined Article submissions are part of Featured News. Instead of responding to individual byline requests from a single publication, you choose a topic within your expertise, write the article, and submit it to our editorial team for approval. Approved bylines are published on news.featured.com and made available to publishers across our syndication network.
Who can submit a Bylined Article?
Bylined Articles are available to all users. Here is how access breaks down by plan:
Free Plan: one Bylined Article submission per month. Your new submission becomes available on the first of each month.
Lite Plan: one Bylined Article submission per month, available on the first of each month. This is separate from how your 10 monthly answers are allocated.
Pro Plan: unlimited Bylined Article submissions per paid seat.
Business Plan: unlimited Bylined Article submissions per paid seat.
On a Free or Lite Plan and want to submit more? Pay-as-you-go credits can be used to unlock additional submissions. One byline submission requires five credits.
How do I submit a byline?
Enter your article details. From the New Article page, input your article title, an optional subhead, and the body of the article. The headline should be 6 to 14 words and accurately reflect the article. The optional subhead should be 15 to 35 words. The body should be 500 to 2,500 words (600 to 1,500 reads best) and written in the first person.
Select your attribution and add an author bio. This tells us who the byline is attributed to. Make sure the expert profile you select matches the author bio you enter. Your bio should be 40 to 60 words and may name and link your company.
Check for AI and originality. Before you can submit, you will be prompted to run your article through our AI and originality checks. Articles that score 70% or higher on Pangram's AI-likelihood score, or that have been published before, cannot be submitted. Once your article passes both checks, you can submit it.
Submit for editorial review. A human editor reviews every byline before it is published. If your byline is not approved, our editorial team will provide a rejection reason, and in some cases additional feedback.
What should my byline be about?
A byline can cover any topic within your own field and first-hand experience. Featured News covers business and finance, technology, health, careers and work, marketing, real estate, education, and lifestyle and travel, plus localized angles by state and metro.
The article's purpose is to inform readers, not to promote a product, service, or company. The strongest bylines share what you have learned from your own work: a specific situation you handled, a number from your own data, or a lesson your experience taught you. Bylines tied to a current news event should be submitted within 48 hours of the news breaking; evergreen bylines have no deadline.
What are the requirements for a byline?
Every byline goes through the same quality check as other Featured News submissions (see Submission guidelines). A few requirements are specific to bylines:
Written by you. Your article is written and edited by you, the named author. Light AI assistance for spell-checking or grammar is fine; using AI to generate ideas, outlines, sentences, or research that appear in the article is not. AI-generated images, charts, and quotes are also not accepted.
Original. Your article has not been published anywhere else, including your own blog, unless Featured News has approved it in writing. You own or have rights to any image, chart, or dataset you include, and you credit each source.
Not promotional. No calls to action such as "book a demo" or "contact us today," and no product roundups, "best of" lists, or comparisons that include your own offering. Your company, product, or clients can be named only when essential to the story, and at most once in the body. Your byline and author bio may name your company.
Well sourced. Attribute every fact, statistic, and quote to its original source, with a link where one exists. Primary sources (government data, peer-reviewed research, official filings) are preferred over aggregators. Statistics include a year, and sources 2 or more years old are noted as such when newer data likely exists.
Quotes. A byline may quote its author or public figures, with public figures' quotes drawn from the public record and linked. Quoted experts may not be employees, clients, investors, or paid partners of you or your company. Quotes must be real and reproduced accurately; fabricated or composite quotes are not accepted and may result in the loss of submission privileges. Private individuals are not named, though anonymized anecdotes such as "one of our clients" are fine.
Free of conflicts. Avoid writing about a company, product, person, or cause you or your company has a financial or professional relationship with, or about competitors in a way that disparages them or benefits you. Bylines you were paid by a third party to write or place are not accepted. If you do have a relevant relationship, disclose it in the article.
Links. Links should support a factual claim or offer useful further reading. No affiliate links, tracking parameters, paid links, or links to pages whose main purpose is lead capture.
Clear and fair. Opinion is labeled as your own and kept separate from fact. Plain language for a general audience, with jargon defined and acronyms spelled out on first use. Where a topic has meaningful limitations, risks, or opposing evidence, include them.
How is my byline credited?
Published bylines carry the credit "By [Your name], [Title], [Company] · via Featured News" along with your author bio. Any conflict-of-interest disclosure appears at the end of the article, followed by the closing line: "The expert featured here is a member of Connectively or HARO, Featured's expert networks."
What happens after my byline is approved?
Once approved, your byline is final and cannot be edited or revised. Featured's editors may trim, retitle, cut, restyle, or remove links from a byline before publication; a new headline always stays accurate to the article. Your byline is then published on news.featured.com and made available to publishers, who must keep your name, title, company, and author bio wherever it runs. See Where your perspective goes for details on syndication and attribution.