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Profiles and Experiences

As Close to Perfect as Possible

By Marybeth Everhart
As Captioners, we've all encountered those situations that are unreportable, at least as far as verbatim is concerned. When someone is relying on us to get it all the first time, how do we handle it?

Back in the Day

By Darlene Parker, NCI
A look back at the old days of captioning  

Beyond the Comfort Zone: The Captioned Iraqi War -- Another Trench

By Monette Benoit
Captioner Elizabeth Maki and caption consumer Kathryn Terhune Cotton comment on the captioning of the Iraqi war. 

How I Became A Broadcast Captioner

By Louise Becker, RPR, CRR, CCP, CBC, Olympia, Wash.
In late 1991, I was working for a freelance reporting agency in the city of Olympia, Wash. I had been reporting for a little over a year and had just passed the RPR exam. I heard about the Court Reporters Forum on CompuServe. It sounded pretty interesting, so I signed up.

Captioning the Olympic and Paralympic Games

by Errol Carter
When Sydney, Australia, won the right to host the 2000 Olympics, it also "won the obligation to provide captioning" - and what a mammoth task it was for Realtime Reporters.  

The Successful Captioner

By Amy Bowlen
What does it take to be a captioner? Amy Bowlen tackles this topic.