Jim Hoagland, Distinguished Journalist on World Affairs, Dies at 84

Jim Hoagland, whose long career as a foreign correspondent, editor and columnist for The Washington Post brought him two Pulitzer Prizes and made his work a must-read among the nation’s top diplomats and politicians, died on Monday in Washington.He was 84.His daughter, Lily Hoagland, said the death, in a hospital, was from a stroke.Tall and courtly, Mr.

Hoagland was the textbook definition of a foreign correspondent, with an encyclopedic knowledge of global affairs and a bulging Rolodex of high-placed contacts.In the weeks before the death of King Hussein of Jordan in 1999, conventional wisdom held that his brother, Crown Prince Hassan, would succeed him.Drawing on contacts in Jordan and Washington, Mr.

Hoagland wrote a column saying that the choice would instead be the king’s son, Prince Abdullah.He was right.“He just scooped everybody,” David Ignatius, a columnist and former foreign editor at The Post, said in an interview.

“At the time he wrote it, I think even Hassan may well have thought he was the next king.”He was a favorite of both Ben Bradlee, the famed editor of The Post, who hired him practically on sight in 1966 to work as a Metro reporter, and of Katharine Graham, the newspaper’s longtime publisher, who often took Mr.Hoagland on her trips abroad to meet foreign leaders.Rare among the Washington establishment, he came from humble roots.

His parents were textile workers in small-town South Carolina who split up when he was young, and he was raised by his paternal grandparents.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber? Log in.Want all of The Times? Subscribe....