RESTON, Va., July 10, 2020 — The National Court Reporters Association (NCRA), the country’s leading organization representing stenographic court reporters, captioners, and legal videographers, today announced that it has welcomed the Caption Masters program to its stable of prequalified training courses.

For Certified Realtime Captioner (CRC) certification candidates who are experienced in the field, the addition of the Caption Masters program as an alternative to NCRA’s mandatory CRC workshop, offers a new learning opportunity in meeting the requirements to earn the nationally recognized professional certification. Candidates completing Caption Masters Training program from 2018 forward are eligible to take advantage of this new opportunity.

“NCRA is happy to announce this new opportunity for aspiring captioners pursuing the CRC credential. We recognize that the Caption Masters program provides training that further expands a candidate’s captioning skills,” said NCRA Senior Director, Education & Certification Cynthia Bruce Andrews.

“At a time when professionally trained captioners are in extremely high demand, I’m excited to help reporters transition into captioning with LearnToCaption.com’s 16-week Caption Masters course. Taking and passing the CRC exam after the course will open doors to endless opportunities,” said Caption Masters owner, Anissa Nierenberger, RPR, CRR, CRC, CRI, a captioner from Boise, Idaho.

To earn the NCRA CRC certification, candidates must either complete the CRC Workshop or take the Caption Masters training program*, as well as pass Written Knowledge Test (WKT) and an online skills test that consists of literary matter at 180 words-per-minute.

The NCRA CRC Workshop is 10-and-a-half hours of online captioning education, and is designed to prepare candidates relatively new to the captioning field for the CRC written knowledge test, while The Caption Matters program provides a more intense curriculum of learning geared toward more experienced candidates.