Jenkins was born in 1959 and grew up in
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. He earned a bachelor's degree from
Hobart and William Smith Colleges and a master's degree in journalism from
Northwestern University. Jenkins joined the
Wall Street Journal in May 1992 as a writer for the editorial page in New York. In late 1993 he became editor of the
Asian Wall Street Journal editorial page in
Hong Kong. He returned to the United States in 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board.
Awards He was appointed a
Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1991-1992. In 1997 he was awarded the
Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary and in 2013 he became the inaugural winner of the Calvin Coolidge Prize for Journalism. ==References==