Is shorthand still relevant in the digital age? You bet it is.

The point is brilliantly made in this video produced by BSkyB for the National Council for the Training of Journalists.

In it News International editorial development director Graham Dudman says that The Sun publisher took on four graduates last year and is taking on another four this year, and that all have their 100 words-per-minute shorthand. He said that a journalist without shorthand is like a footballer without boots – "it's not going to happen".