Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer

Re:Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer by redm on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:10PM (#14554711)

I only associated Pulitzers with journalists, reporters, writers, and other professionals in that vein. It's a fascinating new era where anyone (not just professionals) could be eligible because of the Web and its ability to connect people.

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Re:Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer by Nothorized on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:19PM (#14555289)

Well, Lin-Manuel Miranda won a Pulitzer for Hamilton. There is more than just journalists who can be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. For the full list, see the Wikipedia : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize#Categories

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Re:Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer by jimbokun on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @05:08PM (#14556140)

Of those, Public Service is probably the best fit for Fowler's piece.

EDIT: As Anders points out in the article.

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Re:Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer by Brockenstein on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:27PM (#14554834)

So you take a previous Pulitzer prize winning piece and the one variable you change is the author isn't a official journalist™ and now it's not Pulitzer worthy?

I would like to be believe the Pulitzer Prize should recognize exceptional work and the fact that exceptional work can come from anywhere shouldn't really be a problem.

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Re:Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer by Eridrus on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:53PM (#14555565)

To me, good journalism tries to discover new facts and synthesize the existing information available, which doesn't exactly seem like what Susan Fowler did when she wrote about her personal experience.

So, if the goals of the Pulitzer prize were to reward good journalism, I do not think this would be a good choice.

However, if the goals of the Pulitzer is to reward good writing that has an impact, regardless of whether it is journalism™ or not, then this seems like a good fit.

I feel like the Pulitzer prize leans towards the former though, if you look at the National Reporting Pulitzer this year, it went to WaPo for some Trump reporting, which AFAICT has had no impact whatsoever.

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Re:Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer by praneshp on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:32PM (#14554879)

He never said they should be denied the prize. If I read it correctly, he said it's interesting that it's opened up to everyone now.

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Re:Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer by chaostheory on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:58PM (#14555123)

@Brokenstein may have intended to reply to @mohamedattahri's comment

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Re:Susan Fowler's Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer by jasondemeuse on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:41PM (#14554952)

I think you totally misunderstood the OP you're replying to. As far as I can tell he is agreeing with your sentiment 100%.

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