Pete Carey

Pete Carey is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Carey worked at the Mercury News California from 1967 to 2016 as a projects reporter and investigative correspondent, covering the defense industry, the rise of Silicon Valley, the financial affairs of Ferdinand Marcos and other topics.

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); San Francisco Press Club Award (1985); Mark Twain Award George Polk Award (1986); Investigative Reporters and Editors Award (1986); Jessie Meriton White Service Award (1986); Thomas M. Stakes Award, Washington Journalism Center (1991); Malcolm Forbes Award, Overseas Press Club of America (1993); Gerald Loeb Award, 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, Associated Press (1996); Excellence in Journalism Award, the Society of Professional Journalists (2016). Alumni Member, International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (2024)