Category Archives: Stenography

About court reporting history and its most famous stenographers

The Court Reporters’ Creed

This is an adaptation of a speech by C. W. Jones to a 1964 meeting of Kansas Shorthand Reporters Association by Bill Parson. How court reporters practice their trade may have changed over the years, but their importance hasn’t. So read on, fellow struggling court reporting student, and be inspired. The Court Reporter’s Creed My [...]

Stenographers used to have it good

Oh! for the olden days of court reporting. When a pen and paper would suffice, or maybe a basic machine. And plus, things were just so much more romantic then. Now court reporters spend most of their time in front of computers. Ah, if only I could have been born 50 years ago. Oh, and [...]