Pete Carey is an American

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-winning journalist. Carey worked at the Mercury News

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from 1967 to 2016 as a projects reporter and investigative correspondent, covering the defense industry, the rise of Silicon Valley, the financial affairs of

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and other topics.

Early life

Pete Carey was born in

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and raised in

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. After receiving an economics degree from the

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, Carey started his journalistic career as a reporter for the

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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

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and technology reporter, later specializing in investigations and special projects. In 1983—1984, Carey was a Professional Journalism Fellow at

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Career

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

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immigration and the influence of money on the California Legislature. In 1985, he investigated the transfer of money out of the

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and his associates. The series of stories, which was written in collaboration with

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and

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, was awarded the

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in 1986. Four years later, Carey's investigation of the collapse of a freeway structure during the

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helped the Mercury News garner another

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

Awards

* Penny-Missouri Award (1985); *

Press Club Award (1985); *

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Award *

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(1986); *Investigative Reporters and Editors Award (1986); *

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Service Award (1986); *Thomas M. Stakes Award,

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Journalism Center (1991); *

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Award, Overseas Press Club of America (1993); *

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, Anderson Graduate School of Management (1993); *Best of the West Award (1993, 1995); *Public Service Award, California Newspaper Publishers Association (1996); * Fairbanks Award for Public Service,

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(1996); * Excellence in Journalism Award, the

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(2016).

References

Books

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