Shawna Browne, RMR, CRR, of Waldorf, Md., was recognized by Southern Maryland Newspapers Online for earning the Registered Merit Reporter certification. Browne is a member of…
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January 2014 Volume 75 Number 3 Why tracking progress works Tapping into the power of feedback loops can aid court reporters who are pursuing…
NCRA’s Board of Directors addressed a number of issues when it met Nov. 8 – 9 in Vienna, Va. The board received updates on the…
In 2010, NCRA’s Education Department began to reach out to students by hosting mini conventions on the campuses of court reporting schools in an effort…
NCRA’s 2013 inaugural Legal Video Conference, formerly known as the CLVS (Certified Legal Video Specialist) Symposium, attracted 139 attendees of all levels of expertise from…
NCRA has participated in all 13 of the National Center for State Courts’ Court Technology Conferences. This year, the event, which gives court and legal…
Brian DiGiovanna, RPR, began his career as a freelance reporter in 1979. In the early 1980s, he joined the New York Supreme Court as an…
This year I have the privilege of being the Board of Directors liaison to the Teachers Community of Interest. What a great group of enthused,…
WHO’S TO BLAME? Q. How has it changed? A. Well, you could do that at one time, and then along comes the Internet, and the…
Program director of judicial reporting/broadcast captioning program at Anoka Technical College and independent captioner/CART provider. Currently resides in Dayton, Minn. MEMBER SINCE: 1985 GRADUATED FROM:…
Court reporters, captioners, CART providers, firms, court reporting schools, and vendors nationwide are gearing up to celebrate the second annual Court Reporting & Captioning Week…
At some point, every court reporting student is asked to read back everything they write, practice the challenging words and briefs in an effort to…
The Distinguished Service Award encourages and recognizes work amounting to distinguished service by individual members of NCRA for the benefit of the reporting profession. That…
A Poway High School student who has a hearing impairment recently learned that an injunction was granted that requires the Poway Unified School District to…
According to a recent article posted by the Pittsburg Tribune-Review, officials in Allegheny County, Pa., relied on sign language interpreter Danielle Filip to help deliver…
FOX News 4 in Kansas City, Mo., recently ran a story about local Girl Scout Catherine Pestinger and Project: Don’t Miss a Line, an effort…
Across the nation, plans are being finalized to mark the 2014 National Court Reporting & Captioning Week, Feb. 16 – 22, and the excitement is…
NCRA has published a document offering general information for court reporters and court reporting firms about the changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability…
The article “Speech recognition, the unreachable frontier,” published in Mobile News on Jan. 3, notes that speech recognition has not advanced as much as some…
Inspired by Nancy Varallo’s “Thirty ways to give back” post in November, we’ve highlighted ten ways you can give back to the court reporting profession.…