So here’s the gist behind Chica Girl magazine, an online pub whose second issue is set to drop this week—stop us if you, too, sniff a recipe for disaster: the monthly cover girl is actually a young Latina who regularly reads this “cross between a magazine and a social networking site, such as MySpace.” Chatrooms and blogs and pictures, oh my! Cuz nothing awkward or unseemly ever happens when teenage girls take to social networking online. (Just ask the pregnant quinceañera celebrants from Quincegirl.com.) To her credit, though, magazine founder Toni Jimenez is pushing higher education on her readers with content geared towards college preparation and loaded with university advertisements:

Like other teen magazines, Chica Girl has articles about fashion, boys, tampon mishaps and prom fiascos. But Jimenez wants to go deeper too, tackling teen pregnancy, domestic violence and other struggles keeping young Latinas out of college.

Let’s just hope that members from MySpace En Español don’t make their way over and solicit sex shamelessly flaunt their services.

Magazine’s fresh ideas target Latina readership [San Antonio Express-News]
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