The Future of Teen Magazines

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Ypulse.com, the award-winning blog that has been providing daily news & commentary on generation Y for media and marketing professionals since May of 2004, hosted a roundtable discussion on "The Future of Teen Magazines" at the first Ypulse Teen Media Mashup on November 8, 2006 in New York City. The event was being sponsored by Mr. Youth, a leading youth marketing services firm

The roundtable was moderated by Anastasia Goodstein, publisher of Ypulse.com, and featured the following panelists:

Christopher Gonzalez, Executive Editor, Conde Net's new teen site

Joanna Saltz, Executive Style Editor, Seventeen

Melissa Walker, former senior features editor at ELLEGirl magazine

Anne Sachs, executive editor, ELLEgirl.com Kara Jesella and Marisa Meltzer, authors of the upcoming book How Sassy Changed My Life: A Love Letter to the Greatest Teen Magazine of All Time

Nick Palazzo, Co-Founder and Co-CEO, STACK (a high school sports magazine)

Betsy Fast, Editor In Chief, Twist

Matt Britton, Chief Of Brand Development, Mr. Youth

There was also a short presentation from the amazing youth media organization Youth Communication about their magazine Represent, which is written by youth in the foster care system.

This was the first event in a series of Teen Media Mashups designed to bring the issues Goodstein writes about daily on her blog to life and to offer a real world forum for Ypulse readers to connect.