Maye-E Wong is the Senior Editor for Wider Image and Special Projects at Reuters based in Brooklyn, New York. With two decades at the Associated Press (AP) under her belt, Maye-E has built an extraordinary career, covering a vast array of global assignments, including over 35 trips to North Korea. Her impressive portfolio includes pivotal stories such as 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.
Maye-E’s work has earned her prestigious accolades including the Overseas Press Club Hal Boyle Award, the 2018 Ancil Payne Ethics in Journalism Award, and a Picture of the Year award from the Reynolds Journalism Institute for her powerful portraits of abuse survivors within the Catholic clergy. 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.
In 2023, Maye-E took on the leadership of Wider Image at Reuters, leading photographers in their visual storytelling efforts across the globe. She oversees photo editing and entries of Reuters photographer’s works for major international awards, which have won several World Press photo contests and was a finalist of the Pulitzer entry for Breaking News in Photography in 2026.
