 Hoyt also served as Vice President of News for Knight Ridder from 1993-99.Hoyt is also a joint 1973 Pulitzer Prize winner; a prize he shares with fellow journalist Robert Boyd for their coverage of the Democratic vice presidential nominee Thomas Eagleton, and their uncovering of the electric shock treatment and powerful anti-psychotics used to treat Eagleton's ongoing mental health problems regarding his manic depression, which Eagleton tried to keep secret from the Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern and the press.On June 12, 2010, in his final analysis of his three-year tenure as "The New York Times"' public editor, Hoyt said,

Further, upon commenting about the "New York Times"' continual accusations of liberal bias, Hoyt said,