Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Fewer journalists are training to be court reporters – that’s a problem for justice

(Version anglaise seulement)

par Polly Rippon, University Teacher in Journalism, University of Sheffield

Details of history’s most high profile court cases – from Ted Bundy, to OJ Simpson, to Donald Trump and Dominique Pelicot – were brought into the public domain thanks to the diligent and difficult work of court reporters.

Court reporting is a skilled branch of journalism, taught as a discipline in itself. Ideally, court reporters can write at at least 100 words a minute shorthand (we speak at around 150 words a minute during normal conversation). In the UK, it is against the law to use an audio recorder…

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