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MAYE-E WONG NAMED ALEXIA 2025 JUROR
the alexia
Mar 11, 2025
Summary
The Alexia is pleased to announce that MAYE-E WONG will serve as one of three jurors at this year’s professional and student grants selection weekend.
Maye-E Wong is an award-winning photojournalist and editor currently based in New York as the Senior Editor for Wider Image and Special Projects at Reuters. She leads photographers worldwide in visual long-form storytelling, from ideation through publication. She also represents Reuters at photo festivals where she shares her skills and experience with the newer generation of photographers.
Wong joined Reuters in April 2023 after a distinguished two-decade career at The Associated Press, globetrotting from bases in Singapore and New York City. She has covered a wide range of global news events including the Rohingya refugee crisis in Cox’s Bazaar, political unrest in Thailand and Hong Kong, natural disasters, Black Lives Matters in the US, and more than 35 trips to North Korea. She also has extensive experience covering global sports events like the Summer and Winter Olympic Games, and the FIFA World Cup.
Her own photography has won multiple awards, including the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award, and the 2018 Ancil Payne Ethics in Journalism Award. She was a recipient of grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and the IWMF. Wong served as juror in the 2017 and 2018 World Press Photo contests and sits on the Advisory Board of POY Asia. She is currently a member of the board of directors at the Eddie Adams Workshop.
Feel free to join us for The Alexia 2025 professional and student grant judging weekend (sponsored by Sony) APRIL 4–5 at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University in Newhouse I Room 102. Student submissions will be judged on Friday, beginning at 9 a.m. and will be followed by a Q&A session with the judges in the early afternoon, then the keynote presentations by current and past Alexia fellows Lynn Johnson and Adriana Letorney. The professional grant submissions will be judged on Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m. All events are free and open to the public. (They will not be live-streamed.)
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