By Gary D. Robson Closed captioning has been available for more than four decades, but the author takes on the question of whether the current…
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The Des Moines Area Community College Board of Trustees has named Dr. Patricia Dean Ziegler as professor and program chair of the new court reporting…
In the century-long history of NCRA, special men and women have become stars in our field by virtue of their incomparable excellence and performance at…
The first time I stepped into an NCRA National Convention exhibit hall was in 2008 in Anaheim, Calif. I was completely overwhelmed by all the…
Be sure to look for the feature article “Solve realtime problems your way,” in the upcoming issue of the JCR. The piece offers advice about…
Curtis Newbold, a communications professor and self-named “Visual Communication Guy,” has created an infographic ranking the 15 punctuation marks in order of difficulty. On the…
The Idaho Business Review recently reported that NCRA member Andrea Jean Wecker has earned the Registered Diplomate Reporter certification, the highest credential available to stenographic…
Huseby, the court reporting, trial services, and litigation support company with offices coast to coast, recently posted an article on its website about the realtime…
Are you a court reporting teacher, administrator, or mentor looking to improve your skills, seeking new tricks and ideas to helping students succeed, or searching…
Recently, elementary school teacher Karen Taylor took her class of second-graders from a town in rural Iowa on a field trip to watch a jury…
There have been numerous studies and publications about productivity and getting the most out of time. Based on an article on the Brain Canvas website,…
The Messenger News in Fort Dodge, Iowa, ran an article featuring the 40-year career of NCRA member Nancy Timmons, RPR, official court reporter for the…
Both Deaf News Today and Broadcasting & Cable reported this week that the FCC has started dismissing petitions by program producers who want exceptions to…
The Hill posted an article on a June 5 blog about U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s push for U.S. airlines to add closed captioning to movies…
On June 9, NWAonline ran an article about two central Arkansas movie theaters that are offering Google glass to patrons who are deaf or hard…
Mirabai Knight, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, recently captioned !!Con (pronounced bang bang con), a conference for New York City programmers held May 17 – 18, according…
Some lawyers have found that videos can be an effective tool in getting better sentences for clients, according to a May 29 article in the…
The May 31 New York Times interviewed captioner Karla Ray, RMR, CRR, CBC, as part of its Vocations column, a recurring feature that asks people…
By Rachel Gamez There is a poster hanging in the courtroom that says, “Nobody said it would be easy; they said it’d be worth it.”…