Seventeen

Seventeen Magazine

July 2011

Plot Summary

Seventeen is an American magazine for teenagers. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications.News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988, and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications (later Primedia) in 1991. Primedia sold the magazine to Hearst in 2003. It is still in the forefront of newsstand popularity among growing competition. This magazine is mostly for young girls and women from the ages of 12–19.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seventeen_(magazine)

Critical Evaluation

Again, not a big fan of this magazine. In fact, most magazines like this I just do not care for. The girls are sexualized way to early. There is very little substance in the magazine. And much of the advice given is not really realistic or healthy. In my pursuing of YA magazines I found a great one. It is entitled New Moon. (nothing to do with Stephanie Meyer's new moon). It looks absolutely wonderful but I believe the market is for younger girls not older teens.

Reader’s Annotation

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Information about the editor

Ann Shoket has been Editor-in-Chief of Seventeen Magazine since January 2007. Prior to that, Ms. Shoket served as Executive Editor of the award-winning CosmoGIRL! Magazine since October 2003. She had been with CosmoGIRL! since its launch in 1999, joining as senior editor. In less than two years, she helped lead CosmoGIRL! to become the number one teen magazine on newsstands. While there, she developed some of the most popular sections of the magazine devoted to the topics closest to teen girls' hearts: friends, love and celebrities. In 2004, in response to an epidemic of teen obesity, which flourished in counterpoint to a surge in anorexia, she re-imagined and expanded the magazine's health coverage to include a nutrition and exercise campaign to help all readers live healthier lives. Ms. Shoket has also made her mark as a champion of young women's leadership. She created a "CosmoGIRL! Born to Lead" patch program with The Girl Scouts and she developed a national leadership survey with The White House Project. As the editor in charge of CosmoGIRL!'s leadership campaign, Project 2024, she secured high-profile interviews with leaders such as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, ABC News' Barbara Walters, and designer Vera Wang. Before CosmoGIRL!, Ms.Shoket served as Senior Editor with the Parade family of publications, where she launched the style section for Parade's teen news magazine, React. At the beginning of the dot-com boom, she created the independent Web magazine Tag, which gave voice to an online community of artists and writers. She began her career as a reporter with renowned journalist Steve Brill at The American Lawyer. Ms. Shoket has B.A., cum laude, from New York University and a certificate in Media Management from The New School.

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Genre

N/A. format - magazine

Curriculum Ties

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Booktalking Ideas

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Reading Level

girls age 12 to 19.

Challenge Issues

Always room for challenges with girl fashion magazines.

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Why Included?

As much as I do not care for it, Seventeen has been a very popular magazine for many years now. It is a staple part of a YA magazine collection.