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''Seventeen'' is an American magazine for teenagers. It was the first teen magazine established in the United States. The magazine's reader base is 10-to-19-year-old females. It began as a publication geared towards inspiring teen girls to become model workers and citizens. Soon after its debut, ''Seventeen'' took a more fashion and romance-oriented approach in presenting its material while promoting self-confidence in young women. It was first published in September 1944 by Walter Annenberg's Triangle Publications. ==''Seventeens early history== ''Seventeen'' first editor, Helen Valentine, provided teenage girls with working woman role models and information about their development. ''Seventeen'' enhanced the role of teenagers as consumers of popular culture. The concept of "teenager" as a distinct demographic originated in that era. 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. ''Teena'' ran internationally in newspapers for twenty years. After ''Seventeen'' was launched in September 1944,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_womens_magazines )〕 Estelle Ellis Rubenstein, the magazine's promotion director, introduced advertisers to the life of teenage girls through ''Teena'', selling advertising in ''Seventeen'' at the same time. In 1945–46, the magazine surveyed teen girls in order to better understand the magazine's audience. The magazine became an important source of information to manufacturers seeking guidance on how to satisfy consumer demand among teenagers. Today, the magazine entertains as well as promotes self-confidence in young women. Sylvia Plath submitted nearly fifty pieces to ''Seventeen'' before her first short story, "And Summer Will Not Come Again", was accepted and published in the August 1950 issue.〔Ames Lois. A Biographical Note. The Bell Jar. By Sylvia Plath. New York: HarperCollins, 1998〕 In the early 1980s, Whitney Houston became one of the first black women to appear in the cover of the magazine. 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. ''Seventeen'' remains popular on newsstands today despite greater competition. In 2010, writer Jamie Keiles conducted "The Seventeen Magazine Project", an experiment in which she followed the advice of ''Seventeen'' magazine for thirty days. In 2012, in response to reader protests against the magazine's airbrushing its models' photos, ''Seventeen'' ended its practice of using Photoshop enhance published photographs (see more below under Controversy).〔(Adweek )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seventeen (American magazine)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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