On July 11, the Northwest Boomer and Senior News posted an article featuring NCRA member Elizabeth Archer, a CART captioner in Portland, Ore. Archer is…
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Professionals seeking to add nationally recognized certifications to their résumés can choose from several opportunities to work toward them at the 2017 NCRA Convention &…
Norma Miller, RPR, CRR, CRC, a CART captioner from St. Albans, Vt., was featured in a June 26 interview with Coax Magazine. In the lighthearted…
On July 5, The Wall Street Journal posted an article quoting NCRA President Tiva Wood about what court reporters and captioners do. Read more.
BroadwayWorld.com reported on June 22 that the Theatre Development Fund’s National Open Captioning Initiative has announced a number of new sponsorships across the country to…
“I am so looking forward to this year’s NCRA Convention & Expo,” says Carol Studenmund, FAPR, RDR, CRR, CRC, a broadcast captioner based in Portland,…
TVTechnology.com posted an article on June 23 written by Heather York of VITAC, about the FCC requirements mandating that all live or near-live programming on…
The Valley Breeze reported on June 14 that officials in Pawtucket, R.I., approved a mandate that requires closed captioning be turned on at all times…
The Fresno Bee (Calif.) posted an announcement on June 4 about NCRA member Lesia Mervin, FAPR, RMR, CRR, CRC, earning the Certified Realtime Captioner certification.…
On May 17, Times Higher Education published its first of a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Author Brenda Jo Brueggemann, professor…
Multichannel.com reported on May 12 that a host of groups serving the deaf and hard-of-hearing community have asked the Federal Communications Commission to make sure…
In a press release issued April 25, VITAC Corp announced VTAC Power Connect, a new cloud service that hardwires continuous programming from realtime captioners to…
An April 8 article in the Providence [R.I.] Journal noted that several patrons complained after a movie theater refused to turn on captions for Beauty…
Cathy Rajcan, RDR, CRR, CRC, understands the importance of access in all situations. One of her regular assignments is providing CART for lectures at the…
Roughly 20,000 free educational videos provided by the University of California, Berkeley, are being taken off the Internet because they do not have closed captioning,…
NCRA’s Matthew Barusch, Manager of State Government Relations, represented the Association at the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Disability Advisory Committee (DAC) meeting on March 21.…
The University of Colorado’s office of information technology posted an article about the usefulness of captioning in the classroom on Feb. 7. Read more.
On Feb. 17, Gramann Reporting posted part three of an interview with Julie Poenitsch, RDR, CRR, a freelance reporter from Wind Lake, Wis. In part…
The Tampa Bay Times posted an article on Feb. 21 about how court reporter Cindy Braun, RPR, brought closed captioning into her church. Read more.
By Deanna Baker Sheri Smargon, RDR, CRR, CRC, has shared her experiences on social media working with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and I thought…