Linda Kopp, Editorial Director
Linda Kopp is Editorial Director of Simba Information, the leading source of market intelligence on the media and publishing industries. Linda oversees the content development strategies for Simba’s seven newsletters, as well as the company’s related market forecast reports, Business Briefs, and conferences. From 1991 to 1995, Linda wrote the market-leading newsletter Computer Publishing & Advertising Report. During the balance of her tenure at Simba, Linda has served in various senior editorial and analyst positions, including launch editor for Simba’s Professional Publishing Report newsletter in 1997, analyst/editor for the newsletters Telecom Advertising Report and Book Publishing Report, and as author and co-author of numerous Simba market forecast reports, including Computer Publishing Market Forecast, Trade Book Publishing, Information Publishing: Business/Professional Markets & Media, and Publishing for Professional Markets: Review, Trends & Forecast. Before joining Simba, Linda was an editor with Larchmont, NY-based Communications Trends, Inc. Kopp holds a B.A. in English from The College of New Jersey.

David Goddard, Senior Editor/Analyst for Yellow Pages and Directory Publishing
David Goddard is Senior Analyst/Editor of the Yellow Pages Group of Simba Information, where he oversees content gathering and presentation of the Simba’s Yellow Pages & Directory Report and numerous related research reports. Prior to joining Simba, David worked at Eagle Publishing, a chain of daily and weekly newspapers and printing houses throughout the Northeast. At Eagle, he served as business editor and managing editor of several newspapers, and from 1988 to 1996 he was editor and publisher of the Vermont and then Connecticut operations.