On behalf of NCRA, President Sarah E. Nageotte, RDR, CRR, CBC, submitted comments regarding the rewriting of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to the House…
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The Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning announced two new Captioning Advocacy Projects for 2015. For the two projects, CCAC will pay for up to…
An article in the Daily News that ran Nov. 17 reports that the New York State Attorney General’s office and local agencies are working together…
Niagara This Week posted on Oct. 30 that residents watching city council meetings on TV Cogeco that serves the Niagara, N.Y., area communities will soon…
Adam Finkel, NCRA’s assistant director of government relations, and Darlene Parker, RPR, director of steno captioning for the National Captioning Institute, presented a session called…
KNX10.70 news radio, based in Los Angeles, posted a story on Oct. 27 highlighting a growing demand for court reporters in part due to new…
In a recent video story posted by the Chicago Sun-Times, court reporters Victoria Rock, RPR, a deposition freelance reporter from Chicago, Marnelle Alexis Stephens, president…
A Sept. 15 post on Lexology, a web-based service for company law departments and law firms, reported that the Department of Justice has extended the…
Court reporting students attending the Friday Student Seminar at the 2014 NCRA Convention & Expo in San Francisco were able to get valuable information and…
The Friday afternoon session “Captioning: A New World” at the 2014 NCRA Convention & Expo, held July 31 – Aug. 2 in San Francisco, discussed…
A video posted by Arturo Martinez on July 28 on felicialove.com explains the benefits and purposes of using Communications Access Realtime Translation (CART). The video…
NCRA exhibited for the first time at the American School Counselors Association annual conference held June 29 – July 1, in Orlando, Fla. More than…
In a press release issued June 27, 1CapApp, a service that delivers time-saving solutions for CART providers, captioners, and court reports who provide live text…
On June 11, Media Access Australia published a blog post about captioning the FIFA World Cup. Excluding only live games that fall entirely between midnight…
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 May 31 New York Times interviewed captioner Karla Ray, RMR, CRR, CBC, as part of its Vocations column, a recurring feature that asks people…
Currently resides in Flagstaff, Ariz. Position: Captioner Member since 1981 Graduated from: American Institute of Commerce, Bettendorf, Iowa Theory: Philadelphia Clinic Theory Favorite tip: Never…
Nearly two years ago, Kolby Garrison from Greensboro, N.C., enrolled as an online student at Brown College of Court Reporting in Atlanta, Ga. Like other…
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…
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…