On July 11, the FCC voted unanimously to require closed-captioning for online video clips that have already aired on television, according to a post on…
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NCRA has released a new book, Court Reporter Survival Guide: School Success Stories, a collection of stories about making it through court reporting school written…
The College of Court Reporting in Hobart, Ind., recently awarded almost $21,000 in professional scholarships to nine recent graduates. The scholarships give the graduates the…
Back before the stress, frustration, and soul crushing — ahem, challenging — days of court reporting school, I did something much easier: I went to…
A person’s sitting posture has been a much discussed item in the past few years, and a Jan. 20 infographic in the Washington Post, which…
The Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel, the host hotel for NCRA’s 2014 Convention & Expo happening July 31 – Aug. 3, has announced that…
What’s the difference between the software CaseViewNet and having a CaseViewNet license? CaseViewNet is a free realtime-viewing software created by Stenograph. You can write to…
In a press release issued June 27, 1CapApp, a service that delivers time-saving solutions for CART providers, captioners, and court reports who provide live text…
By Lisa Knight With so many different options regarding realtime-viewing software, it’s easy to get lost in the sea of choices! Perhaps you’ve been meaning…
On June 11, Media Access Australia published a blog post about captioning the FIFA World Cup. Excluding only live games that fall entirely between midnight…
By Jen Schuck CART captioning has come a long way in the past 10 years. Gone are the days of sitting next to the client…
The United States might be a leader in providing captioning for television broadcast, but other countries have been offering this service for some time. Captioning…
By Lisa Selby-Brood If you start to study Latin, you will learn the words – like any other language — and you’ll learn lots of…
By Jennifer Porto How many times have you been on a job and thought, “Why don’t I have that word in my dictionary?” For every…
Friends, students, and reporters, lend me your ears. Shakespeare, legendary man of words, measured and used wisely what he wrote. As steno writers today know…
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…
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…