Chief Interpreter for European Commission Steps Down
The Chief Interpreter post will be filled on an interim basis while the European Commission seeks a new head to fill the position.
After acting...
New California Bill Disappoints Translators and Interpreters
California's AB 2257 is an attempt to loosen a previous gig economy clean-up bill. It was authored by Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who also championed...
Lawsuit Demands White House Virus Briefings Include ASL
As many linguistically marginalized communities struggle to receive critical information about the COVID-19 crisis from national officials, the National Association of the Deaf has...
$6 Million New Funding For KUDO Remote Interpreting Platform
KUDO, a New York-headquartered, cloud-based virtual interpreting platform, has been flying high since the beginning of the year as travel bans and work from...
Translators and interpreters respond to the Covid-19 pandemic
What happens if critical messages aren’t communicated to Americans considered Limited English Proficient (LEP) citizens? To put it bluntly: how are we going to stop the spread if a group of 25 million Americans goes uninformed?
Celebrating Translators and Interpreters: International Translation Day 2019
International Translation Day has been celebrated on September 30 for decades, and coincides with the feast day of St. Jerome, the patron saint of translators, librarians and encyclopedists. He died on that day in 420 CE.
The Sorry State of Legal Interpretation in Ireland
Several people, around the world, contacted me and pointed out the recent articles in the Irish Times concerning the sorry state of legal interpretation...
Misinterpretation Abounds in Irish Court Rooms
Inspired by Adam Wooten’s blog posting Why is the Media Obsessed with the Cost of Public Translation?, I dug deeper and found a report...
Is there an interpreter in the house?
Translation and interpreting have been hitting the news lately, and not always in a good way.
In particular, finding interpreters for defendants, crime victims and...