Ainara Tiefenthäler is a video journalist with the Visual Investigations team at The New York Times. She was among the recipients of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for The Times's coverage of the vast civilian toll of U.S.-led airstrikes.

Ms. Tiefenthäler joined The Times in 2015 and during her tenure has covered breaking news and political extremism. She has reported from the field on separatism in Catalonia, immigration on the U.S.-Mexico border, and pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. In her current role on the Visual Investigations team she focuses on human rights violations, police brutality, and far-right violence nationally and internationally.

Visual Investigations is a new form of explanatory and accountability journalism being pioneered at The Times. It combines traditional reporting with more advanced digital forensics that may include collecting and analyzing cell phone videos, satellite pictures and other imagery, social media posts, and 3-D reconstructions of crime scenes.

Ms. Tiefenthäler's work has received the Emmy Award, the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Polk Award, and the Overseas Press Club Award among others. She grew up in Germany and Spain, and freelanced in documentary film and television news before joining The Times.