Jim Hoagland

Jimmie Lee Hoagland (January 22, 1940 – November 4, 2024) was an American journalist. He was a contributing editor to The Washington Post from 2010, previously serving as an associate editor, senior foreign correspondent, and columnist.

Hoagland was a graduate of the University of South Carolina and attended graduate school at Aix-Marseille University and Columbia University. He graduated from the University of South Carolina, in 1961, with his bachelor's in journalism. He attended post graduate programs at both the University of Aix-en-Provence (1961–62) in France and as a Ford Foundation fellow (1968–69) at Columbia University in New York City.

He was an Annenberg Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, (2010–13).

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."

Hoagland continued writing for The Washington Post, in Washington D.C., as a foreign editor and assistant managing editor for foreign news. Soft on Saddam, April 10, 1990 Gorbachev's Choices...And a Soviet Food Crisis, April 23, 1990 Turning a Blind Eye to Baghdad, July 5, 1990 A Real Arab Awakening, August 16, 1990 ...And the Tale of a Transcript, September 17, 1990 A Quick Rewrite of History, October 7, 1990 As Good a Snake-Oil Merchant as There Is, November 13, 1990

Personal life and death Hoagland was married to Elizabeth Becker and they had two children, Lily and Lee Hoagland. He raised them in Paris before the family moved back to Washington D.C. Hoagland and Mrs. Becker would eventually divorce, he later re-married. Hoagland died from a stroke at a Washington D.C. hospital, on November 4, 2024, at the age of 84. 1977 Overseas Press Club Award for Best Interpretation of Foreign Affairs, Daily Newspaper or Wire Service 1991 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." 1994 Eugene Meyer Career Achievement Award

Quotes Regarding the War on Terror: "The United States is engaged in a shadow war that must now be the central priority for this president and his administration for every day of his term." -- The Washington Post, 2001''