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TRAIN: Your next realtime stop

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…

Captioning the FIFA World Cup

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…

State of the CART

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…

Captioning around the world

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…

The last page: What’s the word?

The Dude Q. Okay. Let me go ahead and do something with you I do with a lot of folks who make estimates like that.…

Does captioning still serve deaf people?

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…

MEMBER PROFILE: Kathy Zebert, RPR

Freelance reporter & owner of Stenedge Currently resides in Athens, Ga. Member since: 2005 Graduated from: Austin Court Reporting Institute Theory: StenEd   Favorite briefs:…

In the presence of greatness

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…

In memoriam: Nicholas J. Cinciotta

My father, Nicholas J. Cinciotta, spent his career as a shorthand reporter. He died on Jan. 19, 2014, eleven weeks shy of his 100th birthday.…

Making the most of convention

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…

Fifteen punctuation marks in order of difficulty

Curtis Newbold, a communications professor and self-named “Visual Communication Guy,” has created an infographic ranking the 15 punctuation marks in order of difficulty. On the…

Boise court reporter earns national certification

The Idaho Business Review recently reported that NCRA member Andrea Jean Wecker has earned the Registered Diplomate Reporter certification, the highest credential available to stenographic…