Slate’s always enjoyable Explainer dissects Stenotype machines, those anachronistic typewriters used by official court reporters to record the proceedings. Who knew each stenographer had their own ...

RECOMMENDATION. NEW AT FOUR. AMID THE ONGOING SHORTAGE OF COURT REPORTERS HERE IN IOWA, A NEW SOFTWARE SOLUTION IS HELPING FILL MORE OF THOSE POSITIONS. STATE LAWMAKERS NOW ALLOW VOICE WRITERS TO ...

Crystal Beaman, voice writer court reporter with the 6th Judicial District, records what is said Jan. 19 during the murder trial of Kazius Childress at the Linn County Courthouse in Cedar Rapids.

They are as common a sight in the courtroom as judges, as vital to the administration of justice as lawyers, and a necessary component to the justice system as they paradoxically play an almost ...