Maye-E Wong is Senior Editor for Wider Image and Special Projects at Reuters, where she has led the Wider Image team since 2023. She guides photographers in visual storytelling globally and oversees the editing and submission of Reuters photographers’ work for major international awards, including World Press Photo. She edited the entry that was a 2026 Pulitzer Prize finalist for Breaking News Photography.
Before joining Reuters, she spent two decades at The Associated Press. She was the agency’s lead photographer on more than 35 trips to North Korea, and in her later years she worked on the Global Enterprise and Investigations team on stories noteworthy for Pulitzer Prize consideration. Her earlier reporting included Rohingya women fleeing Myanmar, political unrest in Thailand and Hong Kong, the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, the Bangladesh garment factory collapse, and Black Lives Matter protests in New York.
She has served on the World Press Photo General Jury, chaired the Sports Jury in 2019 and is a 2026 Joop Swart Masterclass mentor. She sits on the advisory board of POY Asia and is a board member of the Eddie Adams Workshop. Her honors include the Overseas Press Club’s Hal Boyle Award, a National Headliner Award, a Picture of the Year award from the Reynolds Journalism Institute, and a finalist place for the 2018 Ancil Payne Ethics in Journalism Award.
