About Us

Rose City Reporting is a family business, built by two people who have done this work. Alex and Emily are husband and wife — partners in life and in the company they built together — not investors backing an idea, not a platform looking for a market, but two people who've sat in the chair, run the jobs, and built the company they wished existed.

MEET THE TEAM

Alex LoVerde, Co-Founder

Alex has spent 25 years in deposition services. He co-founded DepoDirect, a nationwide court reporting agency, and served as Director of Digital Services at one of the largest court reporting firms in the country. He knows every facet of the digital reporting workflow from beginning to end — capture, production, certification, and everything that goes wrong in between — because he's done all of it, several thousand depositions' worth.

He knows how to make a reporter. That's what Rose City Academy is for: building the next generation of them properly, so depositions cost attorneys and their clients less than they do today.

Emily LoVerde, Co-Founder

Emily has spent more than 20 years in marketing and business development, building brands and client relationships long before she brought that experience to Rose City Reporting. She's an AAERT-certified digital reporter and an Oregon Notary Public — she didn't just build the company's client-facing side, she went through the certification process herself, the same one every Rose City reporter goes through.

She runs client relations at Rose City Reporting, which means when you call, you're talking to someone who has sat in the chair, run the equipment, and knows exactly what's happening on the other end of that job.

Gogo Rose, CCO (Chief Cutie Officer)

The heart of our family and the inspiration for all that we do. Gogo doesn't attend depositions, doesn't run Realtime, and has never once formatted a transcript — but she's been by our side since day one, and every good day at Rose City Reporting is better with her in it. She loves a donut with sprinkles, a longer park trip than planned, and a good dance party.

THE ROSE CITY DIFFERENCE

No board. No outside investors. No one telling us to raise prices or cut reporter pay to hit a number.

We don't over-optimize margin — a fair price for the agency, fair pay for the reporter, and enough left to run the company well. That's the whole model. We'd rather be the best at one thing than the biggest at everything.

The Professional Digital Reporter

Digital reporting has spent years being sold as the cheap option. It was staffed accordingly, trained barely at all, and the industry's opinion of it followed — fairly.

That's a training and standards problem, not a technology problem.

Done properly — by someone who was actually taught how, on software built for the work — digital reporting produces a better record, faster, for less. We know, because we've done it. What the industry has been missing isn't better equipment. It's the professional digital reporter.

That's what Rose City Academy exists to build, and that's who we send.