SHAMED BY a scandal over its reporting, the British Broadcasting Corp. is sending its reporters back to school. Among other things, they reportedly will be required to learn shorthand so that ...

Eric Shain thought Shorthand I sounded like a good class for his senior year. The 17-year-old Dr. Phillips High School student wants to study medicine at the University of Florida after graduation. “I ...

In this age of computers, many may consider the skill of taking shorthand a dying art. Marge Hollingshead, a technical clerk with the City of Sioux City for 37 years, would disagree. "It has many ...

For more than 2,000 years people have used shorthand to make note-taking quicker and more reliable. It's a skill that has weathered being banned by a Roman emperor and associations with witchcraft, ...

It looks like hieroglyphics - but Pitman shorthand is a way of phonetically writing English at speed. Former court reporter and shorthand expert Mary Sorene attained a speed of 210 words per minute at ...

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— May an old stenographer come to the defense of many young people who feel rather aggrieved at certain criticisms of their work in an article in The Atlantic for December, 1895 ? It is true that ...

The NCTJ still include shorthand as a key component of the Diploma in Journalism, and many editors wouldn't consider hiring a reporter without it. But is it worth the weight given to it? While ...

My brother’s text messages can read like fragments of an ancient code: “hru,” “wyd,” “plz” – truncated, cryptic and never quite satisfying to receive. I’ll often find myself second-guessing whether ...

When Alfonso Cuarón stepped into the world of series to direct AppleTV+'s "Disclaimer," he called on Adam Gough to assemble and cut the series. The two had previously worked together on "Children of ...