Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...
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 ...
It looks like hieroglyphics - but Pitman shorthand is a way of phonetically writing English at speed. Former court reporter and shorthand expert Mary Sorene attained a speed of 210 words per minute at ...
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 ...
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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In this nightmare, I am in an exam hall in southern Poland competing with professional speed-writers working in 11 ...
Electronic mail and Internet newsgroups are very efficient at sending digital text, and their asynchronous nature makes them valuable communications tools. However, both share one glaring fault: Their ...