After gaining prominence as a foreign correspondent and early United Nations reporter, he began teaching at Columbia University in 1948, ultimately serving as a tenured full professor at the institution's Graduate School of Journalism from 1950 to 1974.
The following year, Hohenberg completed non-degree graduate studies at the University of Vienna on a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship, presaging his later involvement with the awards program.
With limited need for officers late in the war, he was assigned to the Army Transportation Corps as a public relations specialist, attaining the rank of technician third grade.
Following the war, Hohenberg returned to the Post (by now an influential liberal tabloid under the ownership of Dorothy Schiff) as a United Nations, Washington, D.C. and foreign correspondent from 1946 to 1950, greatly enhancing his public profile.
[5] Prior to the creation of this position, the program was jointly managed by the dean of the Journalism School and other officials at Columbia, including longtime provost Frank D. Fackenthal and his staff.
[7] While at Columbia, he also served as a consultant to the Secretary of the Air Force (1953–1963), a State Department American specialist lecturer in 10 Asian countries (1963–1964) and a discussion leader for the International Press Institute in New Delhi (1966).
After residing in Park Slope, Brooklyn throughout his journalistic career, Hohenberg moved to a Columbia-owned faculty apartment at 90 Morningside Drive for the duration of his affiliation.