By Neil Landau In Hollywood, where episodic TV production budgets tend to be most substantial, showrunners will hire a staff of dedicated writers to bring a diversity of points of view into “the room,” and to maximize productivity, efficiency, and script quality. Staff writer jobs are highly coveted in Hollywood (and increasingly elsewhere) as “entry...

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