But shorthand is still mandatory in some professions. The National Council for the Training of Journalists insists trainees achieve a written speed of 100 words per minute to pass its diploma. It ...

While a video of Premier Wen Jiabao was displayed on a big screen, a woman typed on a recording machine. As she typed, Wen's words appeared on the screen as subtitles. This was in last Friday's class ...

THE director of a journalism college run by email and on the internet is offering free shorthand courses to the four Coventry University students who missed out. Cleland Thom, who runs e-college CTJT, ...

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 news agency boss has dubbed some journalism courses “Del Boy degrees” because they don’t make 100 words per minute shorthand compulsory. Jon Harris, managing director of Cavendish Press based at ...

As S Parasuraman read rapidly from a tattered text, the class bent over their notebooks and scribbled what seemed like doodles. CHENNAI: As S Parasuraman read rapidly from a tattered text, the class ...

From notebooks to typewriters, from computers to the cellphone, retired stenographer K.P. Purushothaman Nair has adapted to all. The 63-year-old has worked with seven HC Chief Justices and eight ...

A student with cerebral palsy will be able to take part in a college journalism course after a u-turn on the need for him to take shorthand classes. Kyle Gunn completed a media studies course at ...