For the past 8 years, The National Court Reporter’s Association has hosted a week-long event to spark interest in the wonderful career path of captioning.  Now celebrating their ninth year, the theme ‘All You Need is Love and Steno’ brings court reporters, captioners, court reporting firms, schools, and others in the legal industry together to help highlight the many aspects that make court reporting and captioning a viable profession.

We LOVE this celebration. It would be an understatement to say captioners are the heart of  NCI. They are involved in constant current events research in order to provide the highest quality captions, ceaselessly broadening their world knowledge. Their schedules combined cover 365 days a year, 24 hours a day. Captioners are on the communication front lines for national disasters, breaking news, tragedies, celebrations, sports games and events, government councils, college lectures, and so much more. In emergency situations, they help deliver life-saving instructions to households across the country. Without them we literally would not have this amazing non-profit organization and deaf viewers across the globe would not receive the same information in real time. We thank them today and every day for the outstanding service they provide.

As this particular week is about sparking interest in and informing about the captioning profession, we asked a few of our NCI captioners to speak a little about the vocation:

(PS. If you're interested in NCI Job Openings, we’re always hiring captioners!)