Teen magazine publisher a finalist for $100G

Four years after launching Yaldah, a magazine “for Jewish girls, by Jewish girls,” 17-year-old editor and publisher Leah Larson of Sharon is awaiting the results of a $100,000 Wells Fargo contest that could reshape her media future.
Thanks to a 250-word essay written by her mother, Evelyn Krieger, the magazine is one of five finalists in the bank’s “Someday Stories” contest, an honor that already reaped $10,000 for the quarterly publication.
The 48-page Yaldah, which targets 9- to 15-year-olds, printed 1,500 copies of its last edition and has 700 subscribers around the world. A typical full-color issue includes a fiction story, interview, recipe, craft, quiz, a fashion page with modest clothes, a true story, an advice column and features. More... Discount Magazine Subscriptions