K. Schipper is the voice of Radio Stone Update. She’s covered the hard-surfaces industry since 2003 as a contributing editor for Stone Business Magazine and Stone Update Magazine. Other areas where she’d covered business-to-business (B2B) topics are hardscaping, decorative concrete, recreational vehicles and product personalization.

Her terrestrial radio credentials include work as a National Public Radio news director, along with several commercial stations. She holds an M.A. in mass communications from the Western State University of Colorado.

She can be reached at kschipper@stoneupdate.com.


Emerson Schwartzkopf is the founder, editor and publisher since 2011 of Stone Update Magazine and Hard-Surface Report, and also served as editor of Stone Business Magazine from 2002 to 2011. His reports at Radio Stone Update focus on U.S. hard-surface imports.

Previous online broadcasts began with “The Digital Minute,” a news summary available for a B2B website in 1996. His work in terrestrial radio includes a daily drive-time broadcast for a Colorado station.

He can be reached at emerson@stoneupdate.com.