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

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.