In this case, the journalism isn't the thing that changed. It was also possible to dox someone 100 years ago. But unless it was an important person, people would read the paper and quickly forget it.

With search engines, if someone is doxed once, you can find it years later when you search their name. The same behavior now has more serious consequences.

Interestingly tied to Pulitzer, for anyone who likes trivia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism#Origins:_P...

Aka "tabloid journalism" [1].

NYT and Vice are not tabloid publications nor are their journalists generally considered to be tabloid journalists.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism