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Cathy Carpenter, originally from Buffalo, N.Y., currently lives and works as a freelance court reporter in St. Petersburg, Fla. She graduated from the University at…
Brad Benjamin is a new freelance court reporter in Chicago, Ill. A graduate of MacCormac College, he covers various types of work including court hearings,…
By Rich Germosen Have you ever noticed that court reporting is a field dominated by the lovely ladies? No? Oh, I have. When I first started…
By Brenda D. Blackburn, RPR I have proven myself to be resilient, determined, and steadfast in my profession, and I have embraced many technological advances…
A recent post on our Facebook page attracted a lot of interest. We all had some fun coming up with even more responses which led…
TVLine.com posted an article on Jan 23 about why television viewers who are not deaf or hard-of-hearing keep closed captioning on. Read more.
Santo “Joe” Aurelio, FAPR, RDR (Ret.), has always had an attraction to the English language, first as a court reporter and later as a professor…
By Kelli Ann Willis I am a techie and have been one for years. CES, the Consumer Electronics Show, is the techie’s Super Bowl. Started…
Register for NCRA’s 2019 Business Summit being held Feb. 1-3 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in beautiful San Diego, Calif. The hotel room block closes on Jan.…
NCRA member Jo Gayle, RPR, CRR, CRC, a freelance captioner from Chicago, Ill., recently earned a shout-out from actor Tom Hanks for her captioning skills…
Following the 2018 NCRA Annual Business Meeting, members voted to change the procedures for holding elections of members to the Board of Directors. Those changes…
By Sue Terry, FAPR, RPR, CRR, CRC The Sinclair Broadcast Group has announced that it will begin using IBM Watson Captioning, a form of automatic…
By Matthew Barusch Recently, the California Supreme Court handed down a decision in the case Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court that will make…
Explore coverage of the 2018 NCRA Convention & Expo in New Orleans, La., with the stories below. Awards and scholarships NCRF Announces 2018 Robert H.…
By Cassandra Caldarella The intention of this article is not to convince you to become a court reporter or that court reporting is a great career. My…
New Orleans is celebrating its tricentennial in 2018 with the theme of “One time in New Orleans…” where they are asking visitors and locals to…
While working for Orange Legal in Tavares, Fla., Tiffany Treffeisen, RPR, and Lisa Shuman, RPR, shared reporting duties on an eminent domain case earlier this…
Kim Falgiani, RMR, CRC, became a court reporter in 1980 and then became a broadcast captioner in 2002. After some years in broadcast captioning, she went through…
NCRA launched an online version of its popular NCRA A to ZTM Intro to Steno Machine Shorthand program on March 30, increasing the accessibility of…