Loren Jenkins | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1938-10-26)October 26, 1938 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Harmon (1964-1985), Laura Throne (1986) |
Loren Jenkins (born 1938) is a war correspondent for theWashington Post who won a 1983Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting "for reporting of theIsraeli invasion of Beirut and its tragic aftermath".[1][2]
Loren Jenkins was born inNew Orleans into a family ofAmerican Foreign Service employees. He earned a bachelor's degree from theUniversity of Colorado inBoulder at the end of the 1950s and then stinted with thePeace Corps inPuerto Rico andSierra Leone. Jenkins returned toAspen in 1964, where he worked as a ski instructor. He later continued his studies atAspen University and did his graduate work atColumbia University inNew York.[1][3][4]
Jenkins got his first position as a reporter in 1964 with theDaily Item. After leaving the newspaper in 1965, he worked forUnited Press International as an overseas correspondent in New York,London,Rome, andMadrid. In 1969–1979, Jenkins served inNewsweek to coverBlack September, theSuez Crisis, and theVietnam War. His articles for Newsweek were honored with theOverseas Press Club Award in 1976.[1][3]
In 1980, Jenkins joined theWashington Post staff. During his tenure with the newspaper, he was awarded thePulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1983 for his coverage of theIsraeli invasion of Lebanon. At that time, theWashington Post was criticized for bias in covering theIsrael–United States conflict.Marty Peretz described Jenkins as "anti-Israel" and inane, stating that the journalist won aPulitzer Prize because most of the judges subscribed to theWashington Post–Los Angeles Times news service.[5][6]
In 1990, Jenkins returned toColorado, where he got the editor position at theAspen Times. In 1995, he was named an editor of the international desk atNational Public Radio, where he worked for the next fifteen years. Under Jenkins's leadership, correspondents of the radio station covered the wars inKosovo,Chechnya,Iraq, andAfghanistan. In 2005 the international desk at NPR was awarded theGeorge Peabody Award. In November 2011, Loren Jenkins retired but continued to write as a freelancer.[7][1]
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