23 october 1944 edition of life magazine

Starting with their Dec/Jan 2017 issue, the magazine was to start publishing only six issues a year instead of 10, to focus on their online presence to appeal to the Generation Z market. It was announced shortly thereafter that Michele Promaulayko, who was appointed editor in chief of Cosmopolitan, would also serve as Seventeen 's editorial director.

In August 2016, Michelle Tan was fired from her position as editor in chief while she was on maternity leave. In 2012, in response to reader protests against the magazine's airbrushing its models' photos, Seventeen ended its practice of using digital photo manipulation to enhance published photographs. In 2010, writer Jamie Keiles conducted 'The Seventeen Magazine Project', an experiment in which she followed the advice of Seventeen magazine for 30 days. Seventeen remains popular on newsstands today despite greater competition. Primedia sold the magazine to New York City-based Hearst in a process led by Platzner in 2003. In 1999 Linda Platzner was named Publisher and then President of the Seventeen magazine group. New York City-based News Corporation bought Triangle in 1988 and sold Seventeen to K-III Communications (later Primedia) in 1991. In 1981, Whitney Houston was also featured on the cover of the magazine. Joyce Walker became the first black model to be featured on the cover of Seventeen in July 1971. Sylvia Plath submitted nearly 50 pieces to Seventeen before her first short story, 'And Summer Will Not Come Again', was accepted and published in the August 1950 issue.

Today, the magazine entertains and promotes self-confidence in young women. The magazine became an important source of information to manufacturers seeking guidance on how to satisfy consumer demand among teenagers. From 1945 to 1946, the magazine surveyed teen girls to better understand the magazine's audience. Teena ran internationally in newspapers for 20 years.Īfter Seventeen was launched in New York City in September 1944, Estelle Ellis Rubenstein, the magazine's promotion director, introduced advertisers to the life of teenaged girls through Teena, selling advertising in Seventeen at the same time. In July 1944, King Features Syndicate began running the comic strip Teena, created by cartoonist Hilda Terry, in which a typical teenager's life was examined. The concept of 'teenager' as a distinct demographic originated in that era. Seventeen enhanced the role of teenagers as consumers of popular culture. The first published in New York City of Seventeen, Helen Valentine, provided teenaged girls with working-woman role models and information about their personality development and overall growth.

23 october 1944 edition of life magazine