American journalist
Holman W. Jenkins Jr. is an American columnist, editorial writer, and member of The Wall Street Journal editorial board . He writes the biweekly column "Business World," which appears in the paper and online every Wednesday and Saturday. Aside from writing for The Wall Street Journal , he has also written for Policy Review and National Review .
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 's editorial page in Hong Kong . He returned to the United States in 1995 as a member of the paper's editorial board.[ 1]
He was appointed a Knight-Wallace Fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1991-1992.[ 2] In 1997 he was awarded the Gerald Loeb Award for Commentary[ 1] [ 3] and in 2013 he became the inaugural winner of the Calvin Coolidge Prize for Journalism.[ 4]
Gerald Loeb Award for Editorials (1970–1972)
(1970–1972)
Gerald Loeb Award for Columns/Editorial (1973–1976, 1978–1982)
(1973–1976) (1978–1979) (1980–1982)
1980: Alan Gersten
1980 (HM): Paul Lieberman, Chester Goolrick
1980 (HM): Tom Bethell
1981: Sarai Ribicoff
1981 (HM): Stan DeCoster, Ann Baldelli
1982 (tie): George Melloan
1982 (tie): Lester C. Thurow
Gerald Loeb Award for Columns (1977)
(1977)
(1985–1989) (1990–1999) (2000–2009) (2010–2019) (2020–2023)