John A. Jenkins
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John A. Jenkins (born 1950-12-16) is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. He is Founder & CEO of Law Street Media [1] and President & Publisher Emeritus of CQ Press[1] in Washington, D.C.
Prior to founding Law Street, a web-based media company covering the world of law, in 2013, Jenkins served for 15 years as President & Publisher of CQ Press and created First Street, the pioneering web-based political intelligence platform. He has extensive board experience in the corporate, university, association, and philanthropic worlds. His corporate board experience includes SEC-reporting companies; as a journalist he specialized in securities and antitrust law. With media investment bank Jordan Edmiston Group, Jenkins led the auction that resulted in the sale of CQ Press to SAGE Publications (Thousand Oaks, CA) in 2008. He signed on as a member of the senior management team of SAGE for four years, reporting to the Global CEO. He remains President & Publisher Emeritus. Jenkins previously served as a division president of high-tech magazine publisher
Career
As a reporter
Jenkins began his career in 1971 as a reporter for BNA covering the
As a journalist and author
As a journalist and author, Jenkins's work appeared in major magazines in the U.S. and abroad, including
Jenkins's 1983 cover story about Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, based on numerous interviews spanning many months, was his first assignment for The Times Magazine. Blackmun's blunt assessments of his colleagues and the court were unprecedented for a sitting justice, and they garnered headlines nationwide. Two years later, Justice William Rehnquist sat for similar interviews. Jenkins's cover story in The Times Magazine, entitled “The Partisan,” revealed new information about Rehnquist's conservative past and brought unwelcome attention to the justice, who vowed never again to cooperate in such an endeavor. Eleven years later, Rehnquist wrote to Jack Rosenthal, the editor of The Times Magazine: “You are correct that I did give an interview to John Jenkins for the article which appeared in your magazine in 1985; it may have been in part the impression that article made on me that led me to decide not to grant any such interviews in the future."
Jenkins wrote only occasionally for magazines after the 1980s, and mostly then for his friend Michael VerMeulen, who was editor of the British edition of GQ. Jenkins preferred to concentrate on book writing and publishing. His recent book, "The Partisan: The Life of William Rehnquist" (PublicAffairs, 2012),[7] is an Editor's Choice of the New York Times Book Review. Jenkins is the author of two other popular books about lawyers, The Litigators: Inside the Powerful World of America's High-Stakes Trial Lawyers (Doubleday, 1989),[8] and Ladies’ Man: The Life and Trials of Marvin Mitchelson (St. Martin's, 1992).[9]
Jenkins is a member of the
A 1972 graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park,[14] he lives with his wife and children in New York City and Washington, D.C., where he remains active in city affairs following nine years of service as an elected advisory neighborhood commissioner.
References
- ^ CQ Press: An Independent Publisher Advancing Democracy by Informing Citizens. Bookstore
- ^ Ziff Davis Media - Ziff Davis Publishing - Corporate Information
- ^ BNA - Essential Information. Expert Analysis
- ^ THE HUNT BROTHERS; Battling a Billion-Dollar Debt - New York Times
- ^ MR. POWER - Free Preview - The New York Times
- ^ THE PARTISAN - Free Preview - The New York Times
- ISBN 978-1586488871.
- ISBN 0312923937.
- ASIN B000J0UIY4.
- ^ Broadway Bound Fund: Bringing theater experiences to New York City youth
- ^ NTIS Homepage
- ^ Law Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
- ^ Software & Information Industry Association
- ^ Philip Merrill College of Journalism | University of Maryland, College Park
External links
Articles by Jenkins in the New York Times Magazine:
Books by Jenkins: