By Lauren E. Storck Do you know the origin of the word caption? The old history of the word is to capture or seize. How…
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The National Court Reporters Foundation (NCRF) is very pleased to announce our agreement with the U S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (the Museum) in Washington, D.…
Esrom Jayasinghe, CLVS, recently announced that after more than a decade serving on NCRA’s CLVS Council, he is stepping down to focus more time on…
NCRA members Patric R. Martin and Marita Yslas, RPR, senior verbatim reporting officers for the International Monetary Fund (IMF), were recently honored for their delivery…
Court reporters are known as “keepers of the record,” and this mission is especially important when significant historical events and trials need to be recorded.…
NCRA member Ellen Coulter, RPR, with Coulter Reporting in Louisville, Ky., was recently honored with the opportunity to serve as court reporter for speeches given…
The DigitalJournal.com recently reported that YourSpecialEducationRights.com, an online video-based resource for parents of children with disabilities, now features closed captioning on all of their educational…
Multichannel News reports that TV streaming site Viki is teaming with Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin on a new campaign called the Billion Words March. The…
Lew Wallace STEM Academy recently organized a College and Career Festival aimed primarily for students who are not interested in or who have not been…
NCRA’s 2013 Firm Owners Economic Benchmark Survey released in February as part of its Firm Owners Executive Conference, paints an overall picture that court reporting…
NCRA’s 2014 TechCon conference attracted more than 200 professionals and a dozen vendors when it was held April 11 – 13 in Atlanta, Ga. The…
Register now for NCRA’s 2014 Convention & Expo happening July 31 – Aug. 3 in San Francisco, Calif., and hear Tommy Spaulding, keynote presenter and…
According to an April 21 article on Philly.com, area movie theaters are now getting the technology to provide captions for theater-goers who are hearing impaired.…
PRI Court Reporting, LLC, posted a piece on the company blog describing the differences between CART and captioning. The post described the basic process for…
An article posted on the KION 46 news site, out of California’s Central Coast, discussed how California budget cuts have negatively affected state courts. Changes…
NCRA’s Certified Legal Videographers Council leaders Bruce Balmer, MBA, CLVS, Columbia, S.C., and Brian Clune, CLVS, San Anselmo, Calif., were joined by Jason Leven, CLVS,…
According to Tim Piganelli, CEO Piganelli & Associates, Phoenix, Ariz., the most effective trial presentations — presentations where a reporter’s transcript and a videographer’s footage…
NCRA members will have the opportunity to vote on two amendments to the Association’s Constitution & Bylaws during the Annual Business Meeting on July 31,…
NCRA’s Constitution & Bylaws permit members to cast their votes in contested elections and on bylaws amendments via secure, online means, even if they can’t…