Ten Career
Opportunities for Court & Realtime Reporters and Captioners
Here are ten
exciting and different jobs that the person trained in court and realtime
reporting might consider as a career choice:
Official court reporting – working for a state or federal court or
a governmental hearing agency. This is usually a full-time job paying a top
salary with many benefits.
Freelance court reporting – working for a large or small freelance
agency. Freelancing can be a full- or part-time job. The work is varied but
mainly consists of deposition or other legal work.
Broadcast captioning for the hearing impaired – reporters work
for major television networks or for private agencies.
Classroom closed captioning – reporting for hard-of-hearing students
at colleges and universities or in any classroom situation.
Business and convention closed captioning – reporting business seminars and
meetings for large companies in realtime.
Medical or legal transcriptionist – reporters who specialize in fast and
accurate transcription using CAT (computer-aided technology) or realtime
technology.
Rapid data entry specialist – working for insurance companies or
hospitals that require fast input and immediate transcription. Data can be entered at speeds of three to
four times faster than convention keyboarding.
Scopist or editor – employed by court
reporters to proofread and edit transcripts before they are printed or viewed
on monitors or televisions.
Steno interpreting and Cyberspace captioning – using your skills to
record events for live worldwide distribution via the Internet.
CART services – reporters who are trained to deal with the special needs of
the deaf community use their captioning skills in a variety of ways. (CART stands for Communications Access
Realtime Translation.)
Revised 10/2002 by Robert
W. McCormick