<story><title>Susan Fowler&apos;s Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2017/06/14/susan-fowlers-uber-expose-should-win-a-pulitzer/#4a2a8c862230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wand3r</author><text>If a journalist with no experience learned to code on the side and built something interesting we would applaud. We wouldn&amp;#x27;t make them an SRE at Google or Uber. Fowler did something great and it was powerful despite not being her life&amp;#x27;s focus. There are journalists who are as good as Fowler is at technology. 
I dont think a Pulitzer is the venue to recognize Susan&amp;#x27;s work, nor do I think she would win. I do think we should recognize her writing, and believe she has already had a meaningful impact</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>inmygarage</author><text>She is currently running a magazine at Stripe (as in, she is the EIC). She was hired for this job in January, before publishing her blog post. She is represented by InkWell, a well-respected, elite, non-technical literary agency. She published a book through O&amp;#x27;Reilly, arguably the number one firm for tech-related publications, in November of 2016. And she is the founder of a monthly book club (seemingly, for fun).</text></comment>
<story><title>Susan Fowler&apos;s Uber Expose Should Win a Pulitzer</title><url>https://www.forbes.com/sites/georgeanders/2017/06/14/susan-fowlers-uber-expose-should-win-a-pulitzer/#4a2a8c862230</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wand3r</author><text>If a journalist with no experience learned to code on the side and built something interesting we would applaud. We wouldn&amp;#x27;t make them an SRE at Google or Uber. Fowler did something great and it was powerful despite not being her life&amp;#x27;s focus. There are journalists who are as good as Fowler is at technology. 
I dont think a Pulitzer is the venue to recognize Susan&amp;#x27;s work, nor do I think she would win. I do think we should recognize her writing, and believe she has already had a meaningful impact</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smt88</author><text>&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;built something interesting&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is really under-selling what Susan Fowler did. She exposed and reformed a massive, multibillion-dollar company with a single essay. How many journalists have done that?&lt;p&gt;Some, certainly. But not many.</text></comment>