Welcome to Teen People; the podcast where I dig into my collection of Teen People magazines, and interview some of the real people who were featured in Teen People! I'm Anna Soper.

This episode is a chat with Lindsay Soll Kirkman. As a teenager, Lindsay was invited to apply to Teen People’s News Team by the magazine’s cofounder, Lori Majewski. Lindsay later worked for the magazine in New York.

Lindsay went to Dr. Phillips High School in Orlando, Florida. In a story for Teen People, she wrote about the school’s athletics and performing arts scenes, as well as its notable alumni—including a few boybanders and pro sports stars.

The school’s mascot is the Florida Panther. Its team name is the Panthers. The school newspaper is The Panther Post, and its yearbook is called, simply, Panther. As an aspiring journalist, Lindsay wrote for The Panther Post, including a story on 98 Degrees, who she met (along with Jessica Simpson) at a publishers' conference in Boca Raton.

Our conversation touched on the teen magazine market of the early '00s, press intrusion, and unpaid internships as an unfortunate rite of passage. Stick around for Lindsay’s best celebrity encounters, featuring Nick and Jessica, Tom Cruise, and more!

Find the images referenced in this episode on my Instagram account, TeenPeoplePod.

Teen People is recorded in Kingston/Katarokwi, the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe, Haudenosaunee and the Huron-Wendat.