Last month the NCRA Captioning Committee sent a call to action encouraging NCRA members to participate in a letter-writing campaign to the Federal Communications Commission’s…
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The NCRA Captioning Committee and NCRA President Christine Phipps, RPR, are issuing this call to action to NCRA members to ask for your participation in…
A podcast posted Jan. 4 by Successful Meetings that discusses specific ways every meeting planner can ensure their virtual or hybrid event is welcoming to…
Captioners: Are you adding new types of jobs during COVID? 28.6% I have less work now. 27.4% I have had more work, but nothing new.…
NCRA would like to thank those members who have graciously volunteered their time to caption events ranging from Town Halls with the president to the…
By Tina Dillon We all know how much it takes for an organization to serve its members. I have sat on the sidelines for much…
The idea for a new live NCRA webinar started when Alan Peacock, FAPR, RDR, CRR, CRC, a freelancer and CART captioner in Mobile, Ala., realized…
By Teresa Russ Since the pandemic, Zoom and StreamText are as popular as peanut butter and jelly. End users to first-time users are asking questions…
By Jackie Hippolyte NCRA member and captioner Stanley Sakai, CRC, helped us delve into the technical aspects of his collaboration with captioner Isaiah Roberts, RPR,…
NCRA has announced that the Caption Masters program is now a prequalified training course for the Certified Realtime Captioner (CRC). For certification candidates who are…
NCRA past President Karen Yates, FAPR, RPR, CRR, CRC, a captioner from Minden, Nev., and Carol Studenmund, FAPR, RDR, CRR, CRC, a captioner from Portland,…
By Sheri Smargon I realtimed a job a couple years ago for a writers’ national literary conference holding their annual convention in Tampa Bay, Fla.,…
Weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, the JCR Weekly checked in with several broadcast and CART captioners to get a snapshot of what has changed and…
NCRA member Deborah Kriegshauser, FAPR, RMR, CRR, CRC, CLVS, shares a memory of one of her most unusual jobs. JCR | When and where was…
Phoebe Moorhead, RPR, CRR, recently had a unique captioning experience when her parents got to see the passage of a resolution about captioning thanks to…
By Rivka Teich On Sunday, Nov. 24, I stepped out of my comfort zone. I did my very first closed captioning event. Let me give…
By Carol Studenmund I live in Portland, Ore., and I am one of the owners of LNS Court Reporting and LNS Captioning along with Robin…
Rep. Ron Kind of Wisconsin and Rep. Rodney Davis of Illinois introduced bipartisan legislation on Dec. 6 that will reauthorize a grant program to encourage…
By Debbie Dibble After a career full of unusual cases, including surfers in New Zealand, terrorists in the Philippines, and Saudi princes in Grand Cayman,…
Cynthia Hinds, CRC, a captioner from Mabank, Texas, recently posted the following on Facebook about an experience she had during a captioning job: One of…