As a journalist, I begin most interviews by holding up my pen and asking, "Have you ever seen one of these?" No one ever has. It's not an ordinary pen, of course. It's a Sky wifi smartpen, a piece of ...

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 ...

— May an old stenographer come to the defense of many young people who feel rather aggrieved at certain criticisms of their work in an article in The Atlantic for December, 1895 ? It is true that ...

WATERVILLE — Arlene Comber was a teenager in the 1940s when she learned shorthand at Waterville High School. She got so proficient, she could take dictation at 140 words a minute. Shorthand would ...

Early in my journalism career, I was at a press conference when I noticed one of the reporters for a major New York daily frantically scribbling notes in shorthand -- a skill I foolishly stereotyped ...

For most of the 20th century, secretaries were at the heart of every office, and it was one of the few career paths widely open to women. The job required excellent organization, penmanship, expertise ...