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, ...

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 ...

The editor-in-chief of the UK’s biggest news agency has said job applications he receives without shorthand go “straight in the bin” as the skill’s necessity for journalists was the subject of ...

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 ...

The journalism training council (NCTJ) says it will no longer be compulsory for all its students, but the former political editor of The Times and author of Inside Story, Philip Webster, says it was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...