As the deputy director of product for News Catalyst, Heather Bryant works on product-thinking partnerships, training programs and workflow and technology research. She’s part of the team building the Tiny News Collective to support the diversification of media ownership and support the creation of new local news organizations.

Bryant runs Project Facet, an open-source online platform to help newsrooms better manage the editorial process and facilitates collaboration with internal teams and outside partners. In 2016-2017, she was at Stanford as a JSK Fellow focusing on how to help newsrooms create effective, meaningful editorial partnerships.

She is completely fascinated by the intersection of journalism and technology. As an award-winning journalist and editor, Bryant has worked on initiatives in data, social media, interactive storytelling and multi-platform reporting. She’s also a full-stack software engineer and am building new tools and projects to explore how technology can better serve journalism and reach diverse audiences.