Jack Hewson is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker with over a decade of experience working across the globe. 

He is a seasoned producer-director / DOP, 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 ... Read More

Jack Hewson is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker with over a decade of experience working across the globe. 

He is a seasoned producer-director / DOP, 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. A Pulitzer grantee, 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. He has a versatile shooting ability able to switch between news and documentary style. He is most at home in dynamic cinema verite scenarios capturing cinematic actuality using natural light, but is also experienced lighting scenes for multicam master interview. He is a highly experienced drone pilot and gimbal operator.

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.

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".

Formerly resident in Jakarta, Nairobi and Baghdad, he is now based between Istanbul and London.

Please find a selection of his work at jackhewson.com/showreel Read Less