For more than 2,000 years people have used shorthand to make note-taking quicker and more reliable. It's a skill that has weathered being banned by a Roman emperor and associations with witchcraft, ...

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A recently published study by Ella Kirsh from Brown University analyzes shorthand manuals from antiquity preserved in papyri and wax tablets, revealing the complexity and diversity of stenographers’ ...

Is shorthand still relevant in the digital age? You bet it is. The point is brilliantly made in this video produced by BSkyB for the National Council for the Training of Journalists. In it News ...

Students told they must re-sit their tests because of alleged malpractice Some 30 journalism students have had their shorthand exam results nullified by the National Council for the Training of ...

Gloucestershire, England, 1837: renowned English educator Sir Isaac Pitman published what would become the most culturally significant of the seven books he wrote before his death in 1897, ...