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When I was a blossoming pre-pubescent, one of the highlights in my month was receiving the new issue of Sassy magazine. A teen magazine that spoke to kids like the 1990's it was rather than the 1950's found in other teen rags, Sassy made the underground world of 'zines (replete with teenage angst, hostility, and bluntness written by both teens and twentysomethings) a mainstream event. I anticipated each month's issue with the same eagerness a 10-year-old boy must feel as he's sneaking a peak at his older brother's Playboy--an overwhelming joy at tapping into topics that parents and mainstream titles such as Seventeen and Teen would blush at. However, due to school libraries banning the magazine and parents being outraged by the stories, Sassy wore out its welcome and found its new home in the magazine graveyard, much to the bitter disappointment of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of teen and pre-teen girls. However, in its place, just like a phoenix from the ashes, Jane was born. Created and headed by the same Jane Pratt, this magazine was geared at those 1990's teens that were now in their twenties, facing student loans and non-committal boyfriends. Finally, Ms. Pratt is being recognized for her path-less-taken publications. Jane has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence, competing against such varied and esteemed magazines as Fortune, The New Yorker, Men's Journal and Gourmet. The three issues for which Jane are nominated include a candid interview with Madonna concerning her new husband and a profile on singer Whitney Houston's drug problems. What may have won the magazine this honor is its take-no-prisoners attitude in showing all sides of the celebrity it and society idolizes, even if this means creating a few enemies along the way. No matter which magazine wins the coveted prize, for Jane and its editor in chief, it definitely is an honor just to be nominated. Go To Page: 1
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