Hoagland served as a foreign correspondent from Africa, France, and Lebanon with the Post, and was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes, in 1971 and 1991.
[6][5] Hoagland began working in journalism in 1958, as a part-time reporter for the Rock Hill Evening News while a student.
[6][7] He was an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, (2010–13).
[3] Writing for The Washington Post, Hoagland won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1971 "for his coverage of the struggle against apartheid in the Republic of South Africa.
[7] In 1991 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary "for searching and prescient columns on events leading up to the Gulf War and on the political problems of Mikhail Gorbachev.