[rincebrain]

There's a difference between learning private information and disclosing it.

Publishing information on a particular private individual because the public's benefit is sufficiently great is a hard line to even vaguely pin down - a home address, all private contact methods, and enough personal data to forge their identity on a passport application is probably never warranted to publish, but you're going to acquire that information while researching private citizens for any reason, and then pare it down to the minimum required to establish whatever story you're reporting on.

One might distinguish "doxxing" as "publishing all the information you can retrieve", without any filter or goal other than making the information as public as possible.

[tptacek]

Did I miss the place in these stories where the author published the subject's home address?

[rincebrain]

I was not attempting to insinuate that the author had done so; I was just thinking aloud on the distinction between "doxxing" someone and what journalists often do.