Jack Hewson is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker with over a decade of experience across the globe. He is currently focused on geopolitics, conflict and insurgency.
As a Special Correspondent for PBS Newshour, his work has centred predominantly on the Russo-Ukrainian War. First arriving in Ukraine in March 2022 during the harrowing opening weeks of the conflict, his team spent two weeks in Kharkiv filming a series of longform reports on life under Russian bombardment. For this work he was awarded a DuPont-Columbia silver batton, a National Press Club award, and an Overseas Press Club of America award citation, shared with the PBS Newshour team.
At the duPont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in 2023 with his better half, Hannah Leah
He has continued to document the conflict for PBS Newshour and other media. In late 2022 he embedded with frontline Ukrainian troops in Toretsk, coming under machine gun and mortar fire, and later the same week reporting from east Bakhmut just weeks before the town fell to Russian forces. He was among the first TV crews to arrive in the newly liberated villages of Mykolaiv in November 2022, and was in Kherson to document the town's historic return to Ukrainian control. In 2023 and 2024 he returned repeatedly to Donbas to document Ukraine's failed counteroffensive and subsequent Russian territorial gains, observing the conflict's descent into a dystopian tech-enabled drone war.
A Pulitzer grantee, Jack is a seasoned producer-director / cinematographer, specialised at shooting in hostile environments, fully HEFAT-trained with support from the Rory Peck Trust. Filming for Channel 4 in 2024 he was among the first TV crews to arrive in Syria to document the historic fall of Bashar Al Assad, a body of work that earned a BAFTA nomination. He has produced and filmed reports and documentary film for a wide range of clients including PBS, Channel 4, BBC, ABC Australia, France 24 and various other media and international NGOs.
Somalia, 2019
Beyond Ukraine and Syria, he has worked extensively in the Middle East, Africa and East Asia. He was a resident correspondent in Baghdad for France 24 from 2020 to 2022, covering the protest movement and its suppression, ISIS counter-terror operations, Iran-backed paramilitaries, and Turkish military incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan. He has reported on drought and hunger from Ethiopia and Kenya, and has filmed across Africa, including in Somalia and DRC. He worked in Indonesia and the Philippines from 2013 to 2019, where as a multimedia journalist he covered a wide range of regional topics, most notably Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte's "War on Drugs".
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, and others.
Formerly resident in Jakarta, Nairobi and Baghdad, he is now based in Istanbul.