The buzz in the courtroom was suddenly silenced. Counsel looked at each other in amazement. She then nodded at the court reporter, signaling her to accompany the group into chambers away from the jury's earshot, away from the public's earshot, and away from the earshot of the press. The more rapidly information can be entered, the more valuable your skills become.
Court Reporting is a wonderful career for men and women.
New ideas where stenotype skills can be applied in today's global world are opening up new careers, such as the closed-captioning you see on your television. That's done by court reporters for all live shows. Just one application of Internet reporting is sending the written text of what's occurring along with the teleconferenced video images and words. The court reporter uses a stenotype machine to take down the spoken word. A diagram of the steno keyboard is available here .