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, ...

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 ...

A couple of weeks ago a Daily Telegraph reporter (take a bow, Christopher Hope) tape-recorded a conversation over lunch with Lord Young. The result: Young was forced to step down from his advisory ...

WATERVILLE — Arlene Comber was a teenager in the 1940s when she learned shorthand at Waterville High School. She got so proficient, she could take dictation at 140 words a minute. Shorthand would ...

The journalism training council (NCTJ) says it will no longer be compulsory for all its students, but the former political editor of The Times and author of Inside Story, Philip Webster, says it was ...

The editor-in-chief of the UK’s biggest news agency has said job applications he receives without shorthand go “straight in the bin” as the skill’s necessity for journalists was the subject of ...

Shorthand has been a vital tool for journalists, secretaries and all manner of professionals over the years. But is it still relevant in today's electronic age? Chris Bond reports. It’s not often I ...

The use of English shorthand and typewriters expanded towards the end of the 19th century in clerical work in the major cities of the subcontinent. The use of shorthand in Indian languages, however, ...

A quick glance at any journalism-related website and it quickly becomes evident life in our newsrooms is changing fast and has been for years. Reporters once dedicated to filling a newspaper are ...