# Bylined Articles

A bylined article is a piece published under your name — contributed content, op-eds, guest posts. Featured finds the publications accepting them on your topic, shows you how to submit, and helps you draft something an editor will actually print.

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## How PR pros use Bylined Articles

Fifteen contributed-content jobs, from finding outlets to beating the blank page. Tap a prompt to open it in Featured.

### Find your outlets

> Find publications accepting bylined articles from fintech executives on payments, embedded finance, and open banking.

[Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Find%20publications%20accepting%20bylined%20articles%20from%20fintech%20executives%20on%20payments%2C%20embedded%20finance%2C%20and%20open%20banking.)

### Place an op-ed

> Find outlets accepting op-eds about housing policy, and help me sharpen an argument on zoning reform from a developer's perspective.

[Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Find%20outlets%20accepting%20op-eds%20about%20housing%20policy%2C%20and%20help%20me%20sharpen%20an%20argument%20on%20zoning%20reform%20from%20a%20developer%27s%20perspective.)

### Crack the trades

> Which manufacturing and industrial trade publications accept contributed articles from operations leaders? Include submission guidelines.

[Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Which%20manufacturing%20and%20industrial%20trade%20publications%20accept%20contributed%20articles%20from%20operations%20leaders%3F%20Include%20submission%20guidelines.)

### Find real guest post sites

> Find marketing blogs with real audiences that accept guest posts on email deliverability and retention — not link-farm sites.

[Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Find%20marketing%20blogs%20with%20real%20audiences%20that%20accept%20guest%20posts%20on%20email%20deliverability%20and%20retention%20%E2%80%94%20not%20link-farm%20sites.)

### Publish with credibility

> Find healthcare publications that accept bylines from physicians and digital health founders, noting any review or citation requirements.

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### Tell the founder story

> Find startup and small business publications accepting first-person founder essays about failure, pivots, and lessons learned.

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### Pitch the editor

> Draft a three-sentence pitch to an editor proposing a bylined article on how AI is changing restaurant inventory management.

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### Outline before you write

> Outline an 800-word bylined article for a logistics trade outlet — “What shippers get wrong about last-mile costs” — with one data point per section.

[Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Outline%20an%20800-word%20bylined%20article%20for%20a%20logistics%20trade%20outlet%20%E2%80%94%20%E2%80%9CWhat%20shippers%20get%20wrong%20about%20last-mile%20costs%E2%80%9D%20%E2%80%94%20with%20one%20data%20point%20per%20section.)

### Build legal thought leadership

> Find legal publications accepting articles from practicing attorneys on employment law and AI in the workplace.

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### Reuse what you know

> Turn the key points from my conference talk on retail loss prevention into a bylined article pitch for retail trade publications.

[Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Turn%20the%20key%20points%20from%20my%20conference%20talk%20on%20retail%20loss%20prevention%20into%20a%20bylined%20article%20pitch%20for%20retail%20trade%20publications.)

### Publish the mission

> Find outlets accepting contributed pieces from nonprofit leaders about donor trends and transparent fundraising.

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### Reach educators

> Which education publications accept bylines from school administrators on AI policy in classrooms? Prioritize ones teachers actually read.

[Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Which%20education%20publications%20accept%20bylines%20from%20school%20administrators%20on%20AI%20policy%20in%20classrooms%3F%20Prioritize%20ones%20teachers%20actually%20read.)

### Aim at national outlets

> Find national business outlets with contributor or expert-voices programs open to cybersecurity founders, and what each requires.

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### Watch for open windows

> Set up a workflow that alerts me when publications accepting bylined articles about climate tech and energy storage open new submission windows.

[Open in Featured](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20workflow%20that%20alerts%20me%20when%20publications%20accepting%20bylined%20articles%20about%20climate%20tech%20and%20energy%20storage%20open%20new%20submission%20windows.)

### Beat the blank page

> Give me five bylined article angles a beauty brand founder could credibly write this quarter, each mapped to outlets that would take it.

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## How it works

From topic to published byline, without the submission-guidelines scavenger hunt.

1. **Name your topic** — “Publications accepting bylines about supply chain AI.” Featured understands the space you want to publish in and who you are as an author.
2. **Featured finds the open doors** — It surfaces publications accepting contributed articles, op-eds, and guest posts on your topic — with how to submit, so you're never reverse-engineering an editor's inbox.
3. **Draft, submit, get published** — Featured helps outline and draft in your voice, pitches the editor, and a workflow can watch for new submission windows as they open.

## What makes bylines on Featured different

Contributed content is the highest-leverage earned media you control — and the exact content AI engines cite.

- **Curated — Real submission paths.** A maintained dataset of publications that accept contributed articles — each with a clear path to submit, not a guessed-at email.
- **3 formats — Bylines, op-eds, guest posts.** The full contributed-content spectrum in one search: trade bylines for authority, op-eds for argument, guest posts for reach.
- **GEO input — Bylines feed AI answers.** Contributed articles in credible publications are precisely the sources AI assistants cite when they explain your category — every byline compounds your AI visibility.
- **Idea → draft — The writing is included.** Angles, outlines, and drafts in your voice, in the same chat that found the outlet. The blank page stops being the bottleneck.

## Put bylines on a schedule

The Bylined Articles workflow watches for publications opening submissions on your topics and delivers them to Slack or email.

- [See the workflow](https://featured.com/product/workflows/bylined-articles)
- [Ask Featured to set it up](https://featured.com/?prompt=Set%20up%20a%20workflow%20that%20finds%20publications%20accepting%20bylined%20articles%20about%20%5Byour%20topic%5D%20and%20emails%20me%20new%20opportunities%20weekly.)

## Pricing

Every plan includes bylined articles. Plans differ only in usage.

- **Free** — $0. Free forever.
- **Lite** — $39. Per month.
- **Pro** — $79. Per month, billed annually at $948.
- **Pro+** — $239. Per month, billed annually at $2,868.
- **Team Lite** — $159. Per month, billed annually at $1,908.
- **Team Pro** — $399. Per month, billed annually at $4,788.
- **Team Pro+** — $1,199. Per month, billed annually at $14,388.

## Bylined articles — frequently asked questions

**What is a bylined article?**

A bylined article is a piece published under your name — your byline — in a publication you don't own. In PR it usually means contributed content: an executive or expert writes (or co-writes) an article for a trade outlet, business publication, or industry blog. Unlike being quoted in someone else's story, a byline gives you the whole argument, at article length, with your name on it.

**What's the difference between a bylined article, a guest post, and an op-ed?**

All three are contributed content under your name. A bylined article usually means an expertise-driven piece in a trade or business outlet; an op-ed is an opinion argument, often for news publications; a guest post is the blog-world version, typically more casual. Featured finds openings for all three — ask for the format you want.

**How do I find publications that accept bylined articles?**

Ask Featured — “find publications accepting bylined articles about [your topic]” — and it returns outlets with active submission paths, drawn from a curated dataset of publications that take contributed content. You can narrow by audience, format, or industry in the same chat, then have Featured draft the editor pitch.

**Do publications pay for bylined articles — or charge for them?**

Most trade and business outlets neither pay nor charge: you contribute expertise, they supply the audience. Some sites do charge for placement — that's sponsored content, a different tool for different goals. Featured keeps the two separate; if you want guaranteed paid placement, that's Paid Backlinks.

**What makes a bylined article get accepted?**

Editors accept pieces that serve their readers, not the author. Specific beats general: one sharp lesson, real numbers, and examples from work you've actually done. Skip product mentions beyond your bio line. Featured's outlines are built around that standard — an insight per section, a data point per claim.

**Are bylined articles good for SEO and AI visibility?**

They're among the strongest inputs. A byline in a credible publication is exactly the kind of source AI assistants cite when answering questions in your category — and it typically carries an author bio that establishes who you are. A steady byline program builds the source layer that GEO measures.

**How much does it cost?**

Finding publications, drafting, and submitting through Featured is included in every plan — free to start, $39/month (Lite) or $79/month (Pro, billed annually) as usage grows. Every plan includes every feature; only usage scales.

**How long does it take to get a bylined article published?**

Typically two to eight weeks from pitch to publish: editors accept, request a draft, edit, and slot you into their calendar. Op-eds tied to news can move in days. Keeping two or three pitches live at once — easy when a workflow feeds you open submission windows — smooths the pipeline.

**Who should be writing bylined articles?**

Founders and executives building category authority, practitioners with hard-won lessons (attorneys, physicians, engineers, operators), and agencies ghost-drafting programs for clients. If your expertise is your marketing, bylines are how it gets published at length.

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