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.
His historic article in The New York Times Magazine, “A Candid Talk with Justice Blackmun,” won the ABA award.
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.
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.
He is the founder of the Broadway Bound Fund,[10] which provides acting classes to youngsters through the Armory Foundation of New York City; the chairman of the American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence, also known as the PROSE Awards [2]; a member of the Board of Visitors of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park; and a member of the Board of Directors of OpenSecrets in Washington, D.C.