Launched just eight weeks ago, Byline has claimed to be the most visited journalism crowdfunding platform in the world.

Byline is a new UK based crowdfunding platform, which is already boasting success.

former editor of The Times, Sir Harold Evans, said that Byline is "a perfect marriage of web and the traditional newspaper... a venture that will sustain the information for a functioning democracy and rescue us from the volumes of clickbait and celebrity rubbish".

Byline has claimed to have launch-funding of £550, 000.

As well as soliciting donations, Byline also acts as a publisher by providing a platform for journalist's work to be showcased.

One of the more high-profile users of Byline is Abby Tomlinson, the student behind the 'Milifandom' Twitter campaign during the UK general election.

Tomlinson is looking to raise £1, 500 every month to publish a bi-weekly vlog, which will feature Tomlinson interviewing politicians.

Seung-yoon Lee founded Byline after graduating from Oxford University, with the help of former Economist correspondent Daniel Tudor.

"We don't see ourselves as a crowdfunding platform because first and foremost we want to be a media platform that uses crowdfunding to fund ourselves. In a newspaper, journalists pitch their ideas to the editor, but with us they pitch them straight to the readers." said Seung-yoon Lee.