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.

Kathy Mickey, Managing Editor/Analyst for Educational Publishing and Educational Marketer
Kathy Mickey is Senior Analyst/Managing Editor of the Education Group at Simba Information, where she is lead analyst in the K-12 and college education markets. Kathy writes the weekly B2B business intelligence newsletter, Educational Marketer, as well as the annual market forecast reports, Print Publishing for the School Market and College Publishing Market Forecast. Kathy joined Simba in 2000 after almost 20 years as a reporter and editor at weekly and daily newspapers, where her focus was education.