Slate’s always enjoyable Explainer dissects Stenotype machines, those anachronistic typewriters used by official court reporters to record the proceedings. Who knew each stenographer had their own ...

Who’s the fastest typist in the land? If you’re talking about the Land of Lincoln, it’s arguably Melanie Humphrey-Sonntag, who has won the Illinois court reporters speed contest for the past three ...

thanks to TikTok, it’s become apparent that the hardest job in the courtroom is actually the stenographer, or, the court reporter. 22-year-old Isabelle Lumsden is a court reporter student in Canada .

BRAINERD, Minn.-Their fingers are fast, their lingo is their own and their hearing is precise. Court reporters, also known as stenographers, use a 6-pound stenotype machine, which features 22 keys, to ...

E! Entertainment Television has been showing re-enactments of each day’s proceedings in the Michael Jackson trial, with actors in the roles of judge, jurors, lawyers, and even Michael himself. The ...

The name Stenograph has long been synonymous with legal transcription. Court and legal reporters, for example, are referred to as stenographers. The craft they practice is known as stenography. While ...

Slate senior editor Andy Bowers explains the operation of machines used by court reporters to create detailed transcripts of court testimony. One more mystery now, not quite on the scale of Deep ...

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In the before-and-after pics of Reddit user yyzgal’s dual-monitor/MacBook Pro setup, guess which one has the stenography machine? Trick question. They both have it. And it’s what most Redditors ...

ENID, Okla. — Sometimes, when Mary Kirkhart is watching a television show or listening to something, she’ll mentally practice typing what she’s hearing. She’ll see a stenotype machine in her head and ...

They are as common a sight in the courtroom as judges, as vital to the administration of justice as lawyers, and a necessary component to the justice system as they paradoxically play an almost ...