By Ellie Corbett Hannum Sitting in the large conference room at the Gaylord Opryland hotel in Nashville, the excitement mounted as Merilyn Sanchez, RMR, CRR,…
By Diana L. Netherton When I arrived on the judicial scene in London in 1992 as a young rookie court reporter, I had never formally…
The Hearing Loss Association of America – Kansas City Chapter has launched the Kansas: Open Caption Initiatives and Kansas: Turn On the TV Captions Now…
In a press release issued Jan. 26, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD), a non-profit civil rights organization, announced that it has partnered with…
On Jan. 26, the Broadcasting Accessibility Fund announced that it will award $723,500 in grants to seven innovative projects designed to advance accessibility to broadcasting content…
An article posted Jan. 22 on Microsoft’s Accessibility Blog reported that on Jan. 8, the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences held the 67th…
On Jan. 21, North Carolina State University posted on its blog that it has established a captioning grant to assist faculty in creating accessible videos.…
An article posted on Mashable.com on Jan. 26 notes that Google Glass’s presence on Twitter and Facebook has disappeared. According to the article, Google has…
During the upcoming 2016 Court Reporting & Captioning Week, held Feb. 14-20, NCRA members and court reporting students are urged to help celebrate the profession…
NCRA and a number of state court reporter associations and court reporting schools are already putting plans in motion to celebrate 2016 Court Reporting &…
An article posted Jan. 19 by the Holton Recorder reported that a local judge recently proposed courtroom updates for the Jackson County Courthouse in Holton,…
The Alice Echo News Journal posted a story on Jan. 5 about a local high school business law class that sat in on a day…
NCRA members can save money and time by submitting their Continuing Education and Professional Development forms online via the Association’s online submission system. Submitting CEU…
By Christine Phipps When being asked to provide realtime, it is the reporter’s responsibility to make sure that happens. Clients pay hundreds of dollars for…
Has a peer or colleague gone above and beyond to support NCRA and the court reporting and captioning profession? Then consider nominating that person for…
Optima Juris, the international deposition agency, issued a press release on Jan. 14 announcing that the company has added Walter Chiriboga, RPR, the only U.S.…
Ask any court reporter or captioner about the various assignments they’ve worked and the answers can range anywhere from a small town court case to…
The National Court Reporters Foundation, the charitable arm of the National Court Reporters Association, announced that Debra K. and Jeffrey M. Cheyne have become donors…
Members of NCRA’s Board of Directors are putting the finishing touches on their plans to celebrate the 2016 Court Reporting & Captioning Week, which kicks…
NCRA member Alice Hadden, an official court reporter for Porter County, Valparaiso, Ind., is featured in an article about her work and the court reporting…