NCRA’s 2014 Convention & Expo, happening July 31 – Aug. 3 in San Francisco at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square Hotel, is the place…
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Both Deaf News Today and Broadcasting & Cable reported this week that the FCC has started dismissing petitions by program producers who want exceptions to…
In an unprecedented mulligan, the federal appeals court in Chicago decided to redo oral arguments in a local terrorism case after it was revealed earlier…
In the Cayman Islands, six men helped make local history when they appeared in court on June 2 without leaving Northward Prison, according to an…
The Valley Morning Times, San Benito, Texas, ran an article on June 7 about a local Veterans History Project that was the collaboration of volunteers…
The Hartford Courant reported the passing of Margherita Cunningham on June 2 at her home in Albuquerque, N.M. Cunningham was the founder of Cunningham Court…
The Hill posted an article on a June 5 blog about U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin’s push for U.S. airlines to add closed captioning to movies…
On June 9, NWAonline ran an article about two central Arkansas movie theaters that are offering Google glass to patrons who are deaf or hard…
When Kevin Daniel, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, and his wife, Mary Daniel, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, went on a cruise along the Seine River in…
Two additional amendments, one to NCRA’s Constitution & Bylaws and another to the Certificate of Incorporation, will be voted on by members during the Annual…
Each year at the NCRA Convention, the National Court Reporters Foundation awards its highest honor, the Santo J. Aurelio Award for Altruism. This award goes…
Mirabai Knight, RDR, CRR, CBC, CCP, recently captioned !!Con (pronounced bang bang con), a conference for New York City programmers held May 17 – 18, according…
The finals for the 2014 Scripps National Spelling Bee were held May 29, in National Harbor, Maryland. Ansun Sujoe, 13, from Bethesda Christian School in…
The May 31 New York Times interviewed captioner Karla Ray, RMR, CRR, CBC, as part of its Vocations column, a recurring feature that asks people…
Pillynews.com reported on May 24 that Russell T. Harris Jr., 89, of Philadelphia, a federal court reporter for many years, died Friday, May 16, of…
The Sioux City News in Iowa ran an article May 26 about the efforts of local court reporters there working to recruit the next generation…
The Library of Congress has almost 90,000 veterans’ histories in its collections — priceless stories of heroism, accomplishment, and sacrifice. They need to be transcribed. …
The Friends of the Congressional Hearing Health Caucus hosted a briefing luncheon and hearing screenings on May 22. The caucus is co-chaired by Reps. Tom…
The Pennsylvania Court Reporters Association has announced that it will host a Veterans History Project day as part of the Sports & Education Expo taking…
In March 2014, Gary Robson participated in TEDxBozeman with a talk posing the question: Does closed captioning still serve the deaf and hard-of-hearing audience for…