Staff writer is a byline that indicates that the author of the article at hand is employed by the periodical that published the article as a regular staff member, and not as a freelance writer or special contributor.

John Truby is a screenwriter, director and screenwriting teacher. His first feature film as writer/director was All-American Boy. He has served as a consultant on over 1,000 film scripts over the past three decades, and is also known for the screenwriting software program Blockbuster (originally "Storyline Pro").

Truby argues that most teachers of screenwriting emphasize inner transformation of the characters but not the moral effect their actions have on others. He is critical of Syd Field's three-act “Paradigm” and has instead crafted his own 22-step outline. Truby's first book The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller was published in October, 2007 by Faber and Faber.

John Truby is the co-writer and story consultant on the recent Disney/BBC film AFRICAN CATS.

Liz Tigelaar (born October 4, 1975)^{[citation needed]} is an American television writer, producer and author. She has worked on the series Brothers & Sisters, American Dreams, Once and Again, Once Upon a Time, and Revenge and is well known for creating and executive producing the The CW series Life Unexpected.

Tigelaar was born 4 October 1975^{[citation needed]} in U.S. She was adopted as a child, something that has influenced her work on Life Unexpected.

Tigelaar, in 2000, was an assistant on the series Dawson's Creek and co-wrote her first episode with Holly Henderson, the third season episode, "Show Me Love". Tigelaar also co-wrote with Holly Henderson two novels in the Dawson's Creek Suspense Trilogy, a series of novel based on the characters from the TV series.

From 2001-2002, Tigelaar was an assistant to executive producer on the series Once and Again. Tigelaar became a writer for the series, American Dreams in 2002 and wrote two books based on the series in 2004. Tigelaar also wrote three episodes of the animated television series Totally Spies! from 2001-2002.

Adi Schwartz is an Israeli journalist and academic. A former staff writer for Haaretz, he currently works as a freelance journalist for Israeli and international newspapers and magazines. His primary fields of interest include the Arab-Israeli conflict and Israeli and Jewish current affairs.

After reading Western History at Tel Aviv University, Schwartz took a position with Haaretz in 1999. His career with Haaretz, with whom he remained as "a staff writer and a senior editor" until 2009, took him across the world, with assignments in "Brussels, London, Rome and Latin America". He has written freelance for other media and serves as the Israeli correspondent for British magazine Monocle. He also maintains a blog in which he posts already published articles and publicizes new articles.

Schwartz is employed by Sapir College as a journalism teacher and speaks publicly as a guest lecturer and commentator in his field.

Schwartz has written about various aspects of antisemitism. Schwartz has published several articles about the controversy surrounding Ariel Toaff's book about the blood libel of Trento.