Stop managing freelancers across spreadsheets, email, and WhatsApp.
Stringerfy gives news editors one place to assign stories, review submissions, and pay freelance journalists, photographers, and videographers.
Managing freelancers shouldn't feel like this.
Five tools. Zero source of truth.
You track assignments in a spreadsheet, negotiate rates over WhatsApp, collect invoices by email, and lose files in shared drives. When your editor-in-chief asks for a status update, you spend 20 minutes piecing it together.
Weeks to onboard. Months to pay.
A new freelance photographer signs on. You need their profile, bank details, tax documents, and a signed contract before the first assignment. By the time everything is collected, the story has moved on.
No way to know what anything costs.
Your budget is a guess. You can’t tell which cost centre is overspent until finance flags it at month-end. Assignment status lives in someone’s inbox. Quality control is whoever remembers to follow up.
How Stringerfy works
From onboarding to payment, in one workflow.
Invite and onboard freelancers
Send an invitation, and your freelancer creates their profile — bio, expertise, banking details, documents. You review and approve. No back-and-forth emails. No chasing paperwork.
Assign work and track progress
Create an assignment with a deadline, content type, and cost centre. Assign it to a freelancer. They submit their work directly in the platform — with built-in chat coming soon for real-time collaboration.
Review, approve, and pay
Review submissions with structured approval workflows. Approve or request revisions with written feedback. Automated payments via Stripe are coming soon — with full audit trails already built in.
What you get
Every tool a newsroom needs to manage freelance contributors — with more on the way.
Invitation-based onboarding
Invite freelancers by email. They fill out their profile, upload documents, and submit banking details. You approve or reject from one dashboard.
Payment tracking by cost centre
Track every payment against a cost centre and budget. See what you owe, what has been paid, and where your money goes. Escrow and milestone-based payments coming soon via Stripe.
AI-Powered Tools
Auto-generate metadata, transcripts, and SEO tags for every submission. Match the right freelancer to the right assignment with AI-powered talent recommendations.
Project Marketplace
Post assignments publicly and receive bids from qualified freelancers worldwide. Compare proposals, negotiate rates, and hire — all within the platform.
Structured approval workflows
Route submissions through editors and producers. Two-stage approval with written feedback at every step. No content ships without sign-off.
Complete audit trail
Every assignment action is logged — creation, status changes, freelancer assignments, submissions, reviews. A searchable timeline shows who did what, and when.
Built for the way newsrooms actually work.
Stringerfy was built by people who managed hundreds of freelance journalists, photographers, and videographers across time zones. We know the chaos of deadline-day emails, missing invoices, and approval bottlenecks. Every feature exists because we lived the problem.
- Invite and approve freelancers from a single admin dashboard
- Assign stories by content type: text, images, video, audio, documents
- Track every assignment from draft through approval to completion
- End-to-end encryption for all data and communications
- Multi-geography support with currency conversion (coming soon)
See Stringerfy in action.
Book a 15-minute demo and see how Stringerfy handles onboarding, assignments, approvals, and payments for your newsroom.