SHAMED BY a scandal over its reporting, the British Broadcasting Corp. is sending its reporters back to school. Among other things, they reportedly will be required to learn shorthand so that ...

Despite the need for journalists to be increasingly tech-savvy – more and more are training in the traditional skill of shorthand, according to the National Council for the Training of Journalists.

On Tuesday morning, I felt like journalism was having its own 'the country has had enough of experts' moment. A Twitter debate began about whether journalists should learn shorthand. People who really ...

In the course of my service in the army and industrial tenures, I found that the clerks taking down dictation in shorthand were the real time-savers. They helped us concentrate on critical issues ...

Throughout the ages shorthand has undergone a constant process of evolution and improvement and at the peak of that evolution stood the system known as Gregg shorthand, the finest and best system that ...

Recently, I wrote to a friend who lives in New York. We're going to stay at his place in Manhattan when we visit there at the end of July. We intend to see Billy Elliot and just "chill" in the big ...

I am sure the article “Why this short shrift to shorthand?” (Open Page, Jan.30) would have kindled nostalgic memories in a good number of readers. Shorthand cannot be separated from The Hindu.