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EDITORIAL Eero Voutilainen:Who was Tiro, and why should we care? ARTICLES COLUMN Carlo Eugeni:”What’s in a name?”

“What’s in a name?”, exclaims Juliet to Romeo, arguing, “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet”. Though powerful in her loving ardour, Juliet’s adage cannot be [...]

A quote is an essential part of a journalistic narrative; thus converting spoken utterances into written form is an essential part of journalistic work. Despite this, it is not generally known [...]

Real-time intralingual subtitling has gained momentum as a profession since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and as legal frameworks have evolved across [...]

The debate about equal access to online content has been going on for many years. By ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, adopted on 13 December [...]

Introduction When Cicero asked his slave Marcus Tullius Tiro to preserve important speeches of the Roman Senate, it was unlikely that shorthand was more than a tool for providing political [...]

This article aims to spark discussion on two topics concerning the future of professional reporting: the official report of the future and the workplace of the future. In our introduction, we [...]

Introduction After the first personal computers appeared in the late 1980s, shorthand typing underwent a deep computerization process that led it to offer increasingly sophisticated products. [...]

Introduction The Japanese Parliament (Diet) was founded in 1890. Since the very first session, verbatim records were made by manual shorthand over 100 years. However, early in this century, the [...]

This is the first issue of Tiro – The Journal of Professional Reporting and Transcription. Tiro is an online open-access journal published by Intersteno, the International Federation for [...]