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, ...

Eric Shain thought Shorthand I sounded like a good class for his senior year. The 17-year-old Dr. Phillips High School student wants to study medicine at the University of Florida after graduation. “I ...

The NCTJ still include shorthand as a key component of the Diploma in Journalism, and many editors wouldn't consider hiring a reporter without it. But is it worth the weight given to it? While ...

Period office series always show women with small notebooks following and noting what their bosses are saying. This role was fulfilled by thousands of women from the early twentieth century until the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In this nightmare, I am in an exam hall in southern Poland competing with professional speed-writers working in 11 ...