Yo, big news: Ansel Elgort is officially 21 years old! Also, he's still talking a lot!

In a surprising development (at least it's surprising for those who didn't catch wind of the "reorganizing" Hearst did last week), Hearst announced Monday that they were giving Cosmopolitan editor Joanna Coles an additional job: she's now also editorial director of Seventeen, a change Hearst says is part of their…

In the publishing world, Miley Cyrus is a hot ticket, so much so that magazines are fighting over her. This month, Elle and Seventeen are both releasing Miley covers — though only one was given the two-bun consent.

A publicist emailed me recently and asked me if she could send me this book and I said "Sure, as long as I can make fun of it from the point of view of a married person who is literally twice that age." "Sounds interesting!" she replied diplomatically, and sent me the book anyway.

It's pretty obvious that magazines for teenage girls are just grooming schools adult lady-mags—funneling impressionable teens neatly into the image-obsessed arms of Elle and Cosmo. I mean, okay, whatever. As much as it bugs me that women's "entertainment," from childhood, is institutionally wedded to this weird…

Tavi Gevinson thinks Seventeen magazine has a body image problem — and she is not mincing words.

Seventeen has at last, in an oblique kind of way, responded to the controversy sparked in April when a 14-year-old from Maine started an online petition calling out the magazine's over-use of Photoshop. That petition, started by a middle school student named Julia Bluhm, quickly went viral and was signed by over…

My friends and I read Seventeen when we were tweens, but moved onto more sophisticated reading material like Jane and Cosmopolitan before we entered high school because there were only so many boy band profiles and "52 ways to have the best first kiss ever" articles we could stomach. (But not, apparently, too many…

Seventeen editor Ann Shoket met yesterday with Julia Bluhm, the 14-year-old reader who started an online petition to ask the magazine to curb its use of Photoshop. Although the magazine accepted the petition and its nearly 25,000 signatures when Bluhm went to deliver it in person yesterday, it appears Seventeen has no…

Can a 13-year-old girl convince Seventeen Magazine to commit to printing one "unaltered" photo spread per month? Maybe, actually! Julia Bluhm, the teenager behind the Change.org petition asking the magazine to showcase "regular girls that look like me in a magazine that's supposed to be for me," has collected almost…

Young people are now free to pursue a higher education without suffering from the crippling fear that they might gain a little weight. Researchers have proven that most college students don't gain the "Freshmen 15" — and that Seventeen is not your cool older sister. The magazine is more like the obnoxious older sister…

Spotted by Girl With A Satchel: In the January issue of O, Oprah reveals OWN is her grownup take on Seventeen. Dr. Phil's all to eager to explain why boys aren't asking us out, but where's the show about traumaramas?

The new online magazine Hardly aims to be the next Sassy — but can that mag's marked-up Chuck Taylors really be filled?

She was sullen and Photoshopped for Elle, but on August's Seventeen, RiRi is smiling and gorgeous. Additional images below! [The Life Files, Seventeen]

Earlier this month, we wrote about eighteen-year-old Jamie Keiles's project — following all the advice in the June/July Seventeen. Now she's done — and we chatted with her about makeup, advertorials, and how the Internet gives her hope.