Peter Cave

Peter Cave (born 1952) is an Australian journalist. He retired as Foreign Affairs Editor for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in July 2012.

Early life and education Peter Cave was born in 1952 in Newcastle, New South Wales. He grew up in Waratah West as one of four children of Frederick David and Betty Cave. His father was an industrial galvaniser and his mother was a nurse.

He attended Newcastle Boys High School.

Career At 18 he gained a cadetship with the then Australian Broadcasting Commission in Sydney. By 1974 he was working for Macquarie National News when he was flown into Darwin to cover the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy.

He later became the chief correspondent for Europe and the Middle East based in London (1987–1992) and then bureau chief in Washington (1996–97). In 2009 he was awarded an Ochberg Fellowship by the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma attending the Atlanta, Georgia fellowship meeting and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies conference.

Walkley Awards Cave has won six Walkley Awards, Australian journalism's most prestigious accolades.

1990 Award Cave was the London-based European correspondent for the ABC when he reported from Berlin on the fall of the Berlin Wall. His coverage won him his third Walkley, this time for best news report.

2004 Awards Cave was on assignment in Iraq for the ABC on the outskirts of Baghdad when he, his cameraman, Michael Cox, and the driver and translator, were ordered by armed masked men to approach their car: in the back seat was an American hostage, Thomas Hamill a civilian truck driver. "The only thing that saved us was the quick thinking of our fixer, who told them we were Russians so they'd use us for propaganda rather than as hostages."

2012 Award Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism

Family life Peter is married and has two adult sons.