Among the various winners of this year's Pulitzer Prize for journalism, announced this week, there was one that deserves special mention here.

The staff at the New York Times won in the category of International Reporting for "its wide-ranging and revelatory coverage of Hamas’ lethal attack in southern Israel on October 7, Israel’s intelligence failures and the Israeli military’s sweeping, deadly response in Gaza."

Included in the body of work was this remarkable investigation into the impact of bombing in South Gaza. In December, Zach Seward, the NYT's head of AI initiatives, explained on Threads:

The New York Times visual investigations team trained a pattern-recognition algorithm on satellite imagery from southern Gaza to identify more than 200 craters from highly destructive, 2,000-pound bombs dropped by Israel in the “safe zone” where it encouraged civilians to flee.

Reacting to the Prize win, Seward said the work "augurs a new frontier of computer-assisted reporting." He gave a presentation on this work, and many other AI initiatives, at the SxSW Festival in Austin back in March. Nieman Lab published the transcript here.