May is Celebrate Certification Month at NCRA; and in honor of this first-time observance, members and students can save. The cost to take the online…
Posts published in “Career”
By Becky Doby “I’d like to sell Mary Kay full-time.” Pause. “I’ve always wanted to be a personal trainer.” Silence. “Okay, who else?” It was…
On May 4 and 5, members of NCRA’s Written Knowledge Test (WKT) Committee worked with Cindy Cheng from Pearson VUE to update questions in the…
Court reporter was one of four careers noted in an article about jobs in the legal field to consider in an article posted by The…
The Sun-Sentinel reported on May 9 that NCRA member Mairelys Albo, a freelance court reporter from North Bay Village, Fla., recently earned the Registered Professional…
Legal Eagle, based in Greenville, S.C., announced in a press release issued May 7, that the firm has agreed to acquire Cannon Court Reporting, also…
Patch.com posted an article on May 9 about NCRA member LaTanya Allen, RPR, an official court reporter from Madison, Miss., who was recently sworn in…
The Oklahoman posted an article about an upcoming NCRA A to Z Intro to Machine Shorthand program the Oklahoma Court Reporters Association will be offering…
NCRA’s Nominating Committee has offered its candidates for the 2018-2019 Board of Directors. The following outlines the candidates’ qualifications for members to prepare for voting. As…
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…
Contributing to the NCRA PAC (Political Action Committee) is an important way you can shape how the court reporting and captioning professions are addressed at…
By Amanda Bavin I’ve been a member of the British Institute of Verbatim Reporters since approximately 2004-5. Like most people, I pay the membership, take…
The May 3 Dispatch-Post published an article about the retirement of NCRA member Joan Yemiola, RMR, an official court reporter from Lexington, N.C. Read more.
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…
The Suburban Times reported on April 30 that funding for the Realtime Reporting: Court Reporting and Captioning program at Green River College, Auburn, Wash., is…
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…
The next testing dates to take the CLVS Production Exam will be June 8-9 at NCRA headquarters in Reston, Va. Registration is now through May…
While working for Orange Legal in Tavares, Fla., Tiffany Treffeisen, RPR, and Lisa Shuman, RPR, shared reporting duties on an eminent domain case earlier this…