Issue 1/2022

How many times have we found ourselves arguing with somebody because we did not understand or mistook what they wrote to us? This happens because written language has far fewer tools than spoken [...]

First Contact I wonder whether Tiro’s readers recall the first time that they encountered the form of reporting or transcription that now constitutes their job. Let us assume that most readers [...]

Address on request On Thursday 31 March, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the House of Representatives via a live video link. It was the first time that a foreign Head of [...]

Introduction The public perception of the House of Lords is as a genteel, formal place where Members behave well and respect the House’s traditions. For the most part, this is a fairly accurate [...]

On January 22, 2022, a protest movement made up of truckers in big trucks and their supporters, calling themselves the “Freedom Convoy”, descended on Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Although [...]

Introduction The following article explores ways of naming women in the Legislature and is underscored by a brief history of the titles Ms. and Mrs. since the turn of the 20th century. [...]

Why, Where, When Like so many of our colleagues in parliamentary reporting sections across the world, the Debates Office in the Irish Parliament (the Houses of the Oireachtas) has been facing [...]

Introduction The Argentine Association of Parliamentary Stenographers (AATP) has agreed on a collaboration with Argentina’s oldest university, The National University of Cordoba, to provide [...]

A vision of progress Hard-of-hearing communities rely on all the text they can get throughout society. As I live in little fairy tale Denmark, which is known for high-level education and [...]

The question of what to leave out of an official report has always been especially important in professional reporting. Every observable detail in an interaction cannot possibly be reported, so [...]