From Newsroom to Code to Fiction
Jayne Lytel is an author and cybersecurity professional whose fiction draws on her experience in artificial intelligence, investigative journalism, and cybersecurity.
As Chief AI Architect at capMedia Inc., Jayne brings a decade in cybersecurity as a federal contractor—including four years at Booz Allen Hamilton—and an AI Fellowship at the R42 Institute. Her thrillers draw on that work: the surveillance systems, the infrastructure vulnerabilities, the corporate logic that treats consequences as externalities.
Her path to writing wound through the newsroom of The Washington Post, where she worked as a copy editor—honing her eye for language and her instinct for story. She served as Washington Deputy Bureau Chief for Institutional Investor Inc. and wrote the syndicated Internet911 column for United Features Syndicate for five years.
In October 1993, Jayne founded the first newsletter chronicling the Internet's commercial rise—a publication that earned her an invitation to CIA headquarters. She watched the digital world emerge and has spent her career documenting and shaping it.
Beyond her professional work, Jayne is a member of the National Press Club and volunteers with the Press Freedom Center. She conceived and developed the Baby Brain Map, an interactive adaptation of Erikson Institute's Brainwonders for child brain development.