It’s like an ad on a matchmaker’s website: “Student seeks steno happiness with a partner who is reliable, understanding, and a good communicator.” Steno students…
At NCRA’s TechCon held in April, members of the association’s Technology Evaluation Committee conducted interviews with the exhibiting vendors to learn more about their products…
Have you been practicing your local news, talk shows, and sports? I hope so and that you are still interested in becoming a captioner. COST…
The registered nurse was speaking to me about my mother’s recent ICU discharge when overhead speakers broadcast a doctor’s page. He cupped one hand over…
Last November, Heidi C. Thomas, RDR, CRR, a member of NCRA’s Board of Directors, boarded a plane armed with her equipment case and steno machine.…
On the occasion of Stenograph’s seventy-fifth anniversary, Jim Cudahy, NCRA’s executive director and CEO, took the opportunity to talk to John Wenclawski, Stenograph’s president. Here…
NCRA’s Virtual Exhibit Hall The purpose of this article is to provide newsworthy information on reporter-related products and technologies. This column is for our readers…
My interest in court reporting began at age 14 during a career day when I sat in with a court reporter. Career days, how ever,…
In the wake of the devastation caused by the massive tornado that touched down in Moore, Okla., the Oklahoma Court Reporters Association collected donations to…
The following are new NCRA reporter and associate members joining in March 2013. Members are listed by state or country. Endorser’s name, where available, appears…
The Freedom of the Press Foundation created a crowdsourcing campaign to pay a professional court reporter to transcribe the trial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning,…
On May 7, Georgia Public Broadcasting published information on becoming a court reporter as part of its “Georgia Works” series, which highlights information on state…
The University of Southern California offered captioning for this year’s graduation ceremony, according to a May 10 news post on the university’s website. The captioning…
Regal theaters was equipping 6,000 of its theaters with closed-captioning glasses during the month of May, according to a May 10 article in the Los…
Arizona’s Mohave County is expected to handle almost twice as many trials in its court system in 2013 from the year before, according to the…
In March, the Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning surveyed caption users to find out what they valued about the experience of captioning. The survey…
A May 31 article in North Carolina Policy Watch supporting court reporters offered wisdom from many in the court community. Judges, lawyers, and advocates working…
I fire up the computer, turn on the modem, punch the TV remote control, hit the on button on my other computer, flip the button…
Name: Charlene Sasso, RPR Specialty: Admissions coordinator at StenoTech Career Institute Resides in: West Caldwell, N.J. NCRA member since: 1978 1. Within one year’s time,…
NCRA’s Constitution and Bylaws permit members to cast their votes in contested elections and on bylaws amendments via secure, online means, even if they can’t…