Does the term court reporting mean that reporters only work in a courtroom setting?
No. Court/realtime reporters and captioners are divided into three categories as follows: OFFICIAL COURT REPORTERS – Those who work in a courtroom setting or do reporting for governmental agencies. Examples of official court reporting include Supreme Court, county or family court, hearing reporters, and special courts or agencies of the local, state, or federal government. FREELANCE REPORTERS – Those who work for a freelance agency or are self-employed. Their work varies from day to day. One day they may be doing hearings for school boards or zoning commissions, the next day they may be doing depositions for lawyers. Sometimes freelance reporters will be hired by courts to do official reporting on a temporary basis. CAPTION REPORTING and CART – Those who are employed to produce an instant record on a video screen or television monitor. Captioners work in a variety of situations including broadcast report for television stations, web/Internet reporting for private businesses, classroom
