Who is Gen Y? Facebook, Google as a verb and Twitter as a noun, texting, lower case conversations, smiley emoticons and running acronyms (lol), a generation on the move, yet glued to their Blackberries, iPhones and laptops, that’s Gen Y. All 80 million of them, aged from late teens through 30, outnumbering both Baby Boomers and Gen X.

In the NYU undergraduate journalism course, Beat Reporting: Covering Gen Y, we examine various aspects from “emerging adulthood,” to social networking, relationships, technology, work, play, and anything else that seems uniquely millennial.