Judith Sims
Judith Sims ( 1939March 25, 1996) was an American journalist, music critic, and magazine editor. She was the first editor of the rock magazine TeenSet in the 1960s. Later she was the Los Angeles bureau chief for Rolling Stone. Career Sims was the first editor of the rock magazine TeenSet in the 1960s, writing influential pieces about Buffalo Springfield and the Doors. For TeenSet she toured with the Beatles in 1966, and after TeenSet she worked publicity for Warner Bros. Records from 1969 to 1972. She contributed to the UK Melody Maker in the 1970s, and she was the Los Angeles bureau chief for Rolling Stone. She edited the college supplement Ampersand and the film review publication The Movie Magazine. She wrote pieces for the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles magazine, and The Washington Post. Sims strongly advocated copyright protection for writers. She was the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Writers Union. Personal life Sims lived with her husband in Echo Park, Los Angeles, for two decades, then moved with him to Oregon in the early 1990s. She died of cancer in 1996 in Roseburg, Oregon, at the age of 56. Rolling Stone editor Ben