A couple of weeks ago a Daily Telegraph reporter (take a bow, Christopher Hope) tape-recorded a conversation over lunch with Lord Young. The result: Young was forced to step down from his advisory ...

In the ever changing landscape of digital media, is it still worthwhile for journalists to learn shorthand? The reporters notepad and scrawl is synonymous with the trade, but with ever more ...

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 ...

Shorthand is a method of quickly writing down information. It has roots in the Senate of ancient Rome and allows the annotation of more than 200 words a minute by top exponents. It enables secretaries ...

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 ...

The use of English shorthand and typewriters expanded towards the end of the 19th century in clerical work in the major cities of the subcontinent. The use of shorthand in Indian languages, however, ...

Shorthand has been a vital tool for journalists, secretaries and all manner of professionals over the years. But is it still relevant in today's electronic age? Chris Bond reports. It’s not often I ...

RYE, Colo.—The Jefferson County Attorney's office, 160 miles north of here, handled a humdrum employment case a while ago that had an unusual piece of evidence: a 200-page document handwritten in ...