Candidates who passed the Certified Realtime Reporter (CRR) test prior to November 2011 are eligible to earn the Certified Realtime Captioner (CRC) upon successful completion…
Posts published in January 2017
Dictionary Jumpstart, a dictionary-building software company for court reporters and broadcast captioners, announced in a press release issued Jan. 16 that the firm has launched…
The Sports Venue Group announced on Jan. 12 the release of its latest section of a white paper that summarizes closed captioning regulations, reviews technical…
The Foothills Focus reported on Jan. 11 that Maricopa County, Ariz., Emergency Management has teamed up with state agencies to launch a pilot three-day program that…
The Naples Daily News, Naples, Fla., posted an article on Jan. 18 that announced closed captioning of Collier County Commission meetings that are aired on…
By Anissa R. Nierenberger Broadcast and CART captioners comprise only 4.3 percent of NCRA’s membership. That’s a pretty tiny sliver! So why should you consider crossing over into…
Vocabulary is critical to your success as a stenocaptioner. You must have a well-developed court reporting dictionary, containing all of the specialty terminology for whatever you will…
By Jackie Young While the standard dictionary definition of plateau is “to have something remain at a stable level or on an even keel,” the…
By Debbie Kriegshauser When I was a new reporter, or even when I was a student for that matter, I knew very little about my…
Court reporting students are much like the professionals in the business they are destined to enter: determined, hardworking, dedicated, and devoted. As with any profession,…
NCRA has declared Feb. 11-18, 2017, National Court Reporting & Captioning Week, an event designed to encourage members and students of the court reporting and…
In a press release issued Dec. 18, 2016, Kramm Court Reporting announced its merger with Donna V. Turrentine & Associates, a prominent North San Diego…
If making a difference is one of your new year resolutions, there’s still time to step up and nominate yourself or a colleague to serve…
There’s still time to register for the 2017 NCRA Firm Owners Executive Conference and hear how keynote speaker Susan Solovic, an Internet pioneer, cofounded and…
Has a peer or colleague gone above and beyond to support NCRA and the court reporting and captioning profession? Then consider nominating that person for…
The National Court Reporters Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Court Reporters Association, announced that Nancy Hopp, RDR, CRR, CMRS, of St. Louis, Mo.,…
Here are the answers to the questions court reporters and captioners most want to ask about the steno machines on the market. Is your system…
NCRA member Constance Lee, RPR, owner of Constance Lee & Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., was quoted in a press release issued Jan. 10 about the expected…
On Jan. 9, 9NEWS, Colorado, showcased NCRA member Stacey Potenza, CRC, from Limon, Colo., about her job as a captioner. In the story, Potenza also…
NCRA member Mary Ann Ridenour, RPR, a freelance court reporter from Charleston, S.C., and her husband were featured in an article on Jan. 10 posted…