By Carol Studenmund It’s Tornado Season 2018. Many live captioners live and work in Tornado Alley. People who live in this part of the country…
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Below is the first in a series of monthly featured words to help captioners build their dictionaries and knowledge. The words for this series are…
A Missouri federal judge has ordered a theatre to provide, upon request, captioning services for the deaf for all theatrical performances, according to a blog…
The Journal & Topics, Chicago, Ill., posted an article on May 2 about the important work captioners do and explains the difference between closed and…
The Courier-Gazette reported on April 30 that The Strand Theatre, Rockland, Maine, has installed closed captioning and visual-impairment assist technology in its auditorium to allow…
Registration is now open for the NCRA 2018 Convention & Expo taking place Aug. 2-5 at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans, La. The 2018…
Freelance court reporter and CART captioner Currently resides in: Boston, Mass. Member since: 1986 Graduated from: Chicago College of Commerce Theory: Stenographic Theory and Computer…
Captioner Currently resides in: Los Angeles, Calif. Member since: 2010 Graduated from: Self-taught after school closed when in 200s Theory: Phoenix Theory JCR | Why…
Bethesda, MD: The Hearing Loss Association of America (HLAA), Bethesda, Md., announced in a press release issued April 23 that the organization has launched…
M&E Daily reported on April 24 that digital media and content services facility Los Angeles Distribution & Broadcasting (LADB) has named closed captioning specialist Deborah…
Ask any captioner and they’ll tell you the most exciting thing about their jobs is the variety of assignments they get. From providing CART in…
The Sports Video Group reported on April 18 that VITAC Captions will provide captioning for the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup playoff games. Read more.
Kim Falgiani, RMR, CRC, became a court reporter in 1980 and then became a broadcast captioner in 2002. After some years in broadcast captioning, she went through…
LearnToCaption.com is now offering Translation Tune-Up, a webinar and a half hour of one-on-one training to help court reporters learn to cut editing time in…
WMAR, Baltimore, Md., aired a story on April 15 about a closed captioning event held in honor of Good Deeds Day at the Center for…
The University of Wisconsin’s student newspaper, The Badger Herald, posted an article on April 3 about the need for captioning as well as a better…
The Delta Statement posted an editorial on April 1 that addresses the importance of providing captioning in movie theaters. Read more.
Captioning for people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing can be a lucrative field, according to a Dec. 3, 2017, article on VeryWell.com, a website that…
For the first time in the past four years, the National Committee of State Associations (NCSA) friendly challenge among state associations and individuals to spread…
NCRA members have the opportunity to earn Professional Development Credits (PDCs) by providing pro bono CART services under a new collaborative program agreement with the…