Before retiring in May 2009, he served as a senior special writer and tax columnist for the paper.

He went back to the paper two years later as a senior special writer and retired in 1987 after a stint on the foreign desk.

Think about moving to Argentina, where congress is considering a special writers' pension.

He eventually became a special writer covering minority affairs.

He moved to The Age in 1960 as a special writer focusing on defence issues.

In 2003, she was named a senior special writer and began the "Wall Street" beat.

With him were two newspapermen, special writers who conducted columns that covered society news.

Theirs are the voices of Herstory, a special writers' workshop.

From 1931 to 1942, he was "special writer" at the Daily Herald.

He moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to report on the entertainment business and was named a senior special writer in 1999.