You’ve seen court reporters in action. In television, movies, and the highly publicized cases that dominate the news, the court reporter is always present, recording history as it happens. Their job is to use the latest technology to create a verbatim account of the spoken word. It even goes beyond the courtroom, with reporters documenting what’s said in conventions, classrooms, hearings, depositions, speeches, cyberspace, television studios and Congress, to name only a few.