You already know that court reporting involves capturing and converting the spoken word to text. Here are some fun facts you may not have known about court reporting, courtesy of the National Court Reporters Association:- Modern shorthand began with the introduction of the stenotype machine in 1913, the most reliable means yet devised to create a verbatim record for court reporting.
- Charles Dickens' early court reporting days in London's Parliament became a subplot in his novel "David Copperfield."
- The court reporters in the 1995 O.J. Simpson criminal trial took down more than one million lines of trial transcripts.
- The court reporter who accompanied Richard Nixon during part of his 1968 presidential campaign delivered transcripts of TV show appearances to the media faster than the networks.
- Actor Harvey Keitel began his professional career as a court reporter at Century Reporting Company in New York City.
- Actresses Michelle Pfeiffer and Kim Delaney once studied to be court reporters.
- Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the federal judge who later became the first commissioner of baseball, began his career as a court reporter.
- Ruth Handler, a former stenographer for Paramount Pictures, founded the Mattel Company and introduced the world to the Barbie doll.
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