Drones. Controversial? Yes. A useful journalism tool? Maybe? And now you can win one of your very own.

Yesterday, during “Drone Day” at Syracuse University’s  S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, professor Dan Pacheo demonstrated just how useful a handy little $300 AR Parrot drone can be. Mr. Pancheo, the head of the Journalism Innovation program, flew the flying camera around an auditorium using an iPad as a control while an audience watched video of themselves projected onto a large screen.  Read More

Harpreet Singh Toor, a neighborhood activist who is running to become the first Sikh in the city council, has come up with an innovative way to get his voters to the polls next Tuesday.

Toor has arranged for Sikh cab drivers to use their cars to ferry voters to and from the polls on election Read More