The company employs approximately 250 in-house translators and writers and has a network of 2,400 external partners.

All the major publishers employ writers under contract.

Because it employed young writers in New York City, many of its former staff and contributors became well known later in their lives.

In order to meet the demand, Block did employ, at least on one occasion, other writers to assist him.

Others employ writers, editors, etc. with varying specialties, so as to work for a variety of clients.

It is "censorship," they claim, if a newspaper refuses to employ or publish writers whose ideas are diametrically opposed to its policy.

While the magazine now employs professional writers (the September 2009 issue credited 15 journalists as being "regular contributors") it still commissions articles by fans.

The term "hack writer" was first used in the 18th century, "when publishing was establishing itself as a business employing writers who could produce to order."

SNL has always employed female writers but they often had little to no voice over the pacing of the show, sometimes not even their own sketches.

When the press expanded to current titles, they wrote some books themselves and employed other writers, including Erasmus.