In a July 29 Education Week commentary piece, public radio reporter Monica Brady-Myerov wrote that reading same-language subtitles can boost students’ literacy. She cites studies…
Posts published in “Captioning”
By Jen Schuck There are many differences between a court reporter and a CART or broadcast captioner. However, one similarity is the electronic file that is…
The Huntsville, Ala., City Council now will include closed captioning of the meetings shown live on TV and streamed on the Web, according to AL.com,…
A record number court reporters, captioners, and legal videographers helped kick off the 2015 NCRA Convention & Expo this morning, the highest number of registrants…
In July, Sen. John A. DeFrancisco announced the passage of S5533-B by the state’s Senate and Assembly. The bill, which DeFrancisco introduced, would require state-funded…
The FCC will run a forum in November at its headquarters to promote discussion about closed captioning of public access and governmental programming shown on…
CourtreporterEDU.org posted a story on July 7 announcing NCRA’s recent approval to combine its Certified Broadcast Captioner and Certified CART Provider certifications into the single…
NCRA participated in the Hearing Loss Association of America’s annual convention held June 25-28 in St. Louis, Mo., as one of many exhibitors. Adam Finkel,…
On June 13, NCRA members Jana B. Colter, RMR, CRR, CBC, CCP, Louisville, Ky., and Kerry Anderson, RPR, Atlanta, Ga., participated in the ADA25 Georgia…
NCRA President Sarah E. Nageotte, RDR, CRR, CBC, responded to an editorial that appeared June 20 on Ohio.com, and written by Akron Beacon Journal columnist…
On June 8, NCRA was one of several organizations that jointly submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission that address the agency’s rules regarding appropriate…
By Wes Long Microsoft is releasing Windows 10 on July 29. I have been to several technical presentations about this (and other) technologies being released…
1CapApp, which offers a realtime text streaming application, has introduced 1Fuzion, a desktop application that brings together all of 1CapApp’s technology and allows easy setup…
On May 8, The National Law Review posted an article updating closed captioning details based on a public notice released by FCC’s Consumer and Governmental…
NCRA members, state associations, and court reporting schools across the nation stepped up their game to support the third National Court Reporting & Captioning Week…
Currently resides in: Caseyville, Ill. (suburb of St. Louis, Mo.) Position: CART captioner Member since: 1998 Graduated from: Sparks College, Shelbyville, Ill., in 1998 and…
On Feb. 19, NCRA filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission requesting that the agency waive a best practice required in its current captioning…
NCRA recently contacted the Society of Broadcast Engineers regarding concerns of how elimination of POTS lines affects closed captioning. According to a white paper submitted…
NCRA launched a new RPR Study Guide, a comprehensive book that takes each knowledge area of the RPR and provides a manageable, straightforward tutorial of…
This week, the Described and Captioned Media Program is celebrating its Read Captions Across America campaign held in conjunction with the National Education Association’s Read…