Pete Carey

(1940-04-02) April 2, 1940

American

journalist

Early life[edit]

Pete Carey was born in San Francisco and raised in Berkeley. After receiving an economics degree from the University of California, Carey started his journalistic career as a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner in 1964. The following year, he joined the Livermore Independent, as a reporter and editor for three years. He then joined the San Jose Mercury News as an aerospace and technology reporter, later specializing in investigations and special projects. In 1983—1984, Carey was a Professional Journalism Fellow at Stanford University.[2]

Career[edit]

For the San Jose Mercury News, Carey undertook a number of local, national, and international assignments, ranging from fraud and waste involving American charities in Mexico immigration and the influence of money on the California Legislature. In 1985, he investigated the transfer of money out of the Philippines by Ferdinand Marcos and his associates. The series of stories, which was written in collaboration with Katherine Ellison and Lewis Simons, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1986. Four years later, Carey's investigation of the collapse of a freeway structure during the Loma Prieta earthquake helped the Mercury News garner another Pulitzer Prize.[3][4][5]


By 2020, Pete Carey retired from the San Jose Mercury News to mentor grantees of the program of the Fund for Investigative Journalism.[2][6][1]

(1985);

Penny-Missouri Award

Press Club Award (1985);

San Francisco

Award

Mark Twain

(1986);

George Polk Award

Investigative Reporters and Editors Award (1986);

Service Award (1986);

Jessie Meriton White

Thomas M. Stakes Award, Journalism Center (1991);

Washington

Award, Overseas Press Club of America (1993);

Malcolm Forbes

Anderson Graduate School of Management (1993);

Gerald Loeb Award

Best of the West Award (1993, 1995);

Public Service Award, (1996);

California Newspaper Publishers Association

Associated Press (1996);

Fairbanks Award for Public Service

Excellence in Journalism Award, the (2016).[1]

Society of Professional Journalists

Brennan (1999). . Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 666. ISBN 9781573561112.

Who's who of Pulitzer Prize Winners

Saur, K. G. (2011). . Vienna: De Gruyter. p. 437. ISBN 978-3598301711.

International Reporting 1928-1985: From the Activities of the League of Nations to present-day Global Problems