She held senior posts at Nickelodeon and Scholastic Media, and was president of the board of the New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT).
In the 1980s she was vice-president of acquisitions at Nickelodeon, and helped to launch Nick at Nite, a popular evening package of original shows and old sitcoms, targeted at Baby Boomers and their families.
At Scholastic Media from 1995 to 2008, she was responsible for international promotion and brand development for Goosebumps, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Maya & Miguel, Stellaluna, the Magic School Bus, Animorphs, and WordGirl.
[9] In 2008 she gave an oral history interview for NYWIFT's Archive Project,[10] and began her own consulting firm, Linda Kahn Media.
[13] Her college papers, including records of her anti-war activism and her semester abroad in London, are in the collection of the Washington University Archives.