Jack Hewson

Jack Hewson is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker with over ten years experience as a foreign correspondent across three continents. He is currently focused on geopolitics, conflict and insurgency.

As a Pulitzer Foundation grantee, he won an Alfred I. duPont silver batton, a National Press Club award, and an Overseas Press Club of America award citation with the PBS Newshour team for his correspondence covering the first weeks of the War in Ukraine.

He is a seasoned DP / cinematographer, experienced at shooting in hostile environments, fully HEFAT trained with support from the Rory Peck Trust. His reels can be found at jackhewson.com/showreel

He worked in Indonesia and the Philippines from 2013 to 2019, where he covered national elections, ethnic and political unrest, insurgency, terrorism, religious intolerance, plane crashes, climate change, deforestation, natural disasters, China's Belt and Road and President Rodrigo Duterte's "War on Drugs". He worked in Iraq from 2020 to 2022 where he covered the Tishreen protest movement, activist assassinations, Shia militia rocket attacks, the political fallout following the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the ongoing Turkish military incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan, counter ISIS insurgency operations, the oppression of women, religious tensions, child labour, and the 2021 parliamentary election. In 2022-23 he covered the East African drought, Kenya's presidential elections, the Battle of Kharkiv, the Battle of Bakhmut, the liberation of Kherson and the targeting of Russian forces by Ukrainian OSINT investigators, the frontlines of the Ukrainian counteroffensive and far right Russian extremists fighting for Ukraine.

His written work has been published in The Guardian, The Times of London, The Independent, The Nikkei Asian Review, Foreign Policy, USA Today, Al Jazeera English, The Financial Times and Vice News.

He has reported live and made broadcast appearances for BBC, Sky, ITV, CBS, CBC, PBS, ABC Australia, France 24, DW, TRT. He worked as a TV correspondent for France 24 from 2016-2021 and for PBS Newshour since 2021.