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'''Peter Cave''' is an Australian journalist. He is Foreign Affairs Editor for the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]].
'''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==
==Early life and education==
Peter Cave was born in 1952 in [[Newcastle, New South Wales]]. He grew up in [[Waratah]] as one of four children of Frederick David and Betty Cave. His father was an industrial galvaniser and his mother was a nurse.<ref name=NewcH2006>{{cite news| title = The Truth Hurts| first = Ben| last = Quinn| newspaper = Newcastle Herald| publisher = John Fairfax Holdings Limited.| location = Newcastle, New South Wales| date = 1 July 2006| page = 14}}</ref><ref>Commonwealth of Australia. Electoral Roll. Division of Shortland. 1954. Sub-division of Waratah. Frederick David Cave and Betty Cave.</ref>
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.<ref name=NewcH2006>{{cite news| title = The Truth Hurts| first = Ben| last = Quinn| newspaper = Newcastle Herald| publisher = John Fairfax Holdings Limited.| location = Newcastle, New South Wales| date = 1 July 2006| page = 14}}</ref><ref>Commonwealth of Australia. Electoral Roll. Division of Shortland. 1954. Sub-division of Waratah. Frederick David Cave and Betty Cave.</ref>


He attended [[Newcastle Boys High School]].<ref name=COUMAI20030822>{{cite news| title = Hendo brought vigour and balance to the job (Obituary: Ian Henderson| first = Peter| last = Charlton| newspaper = Courier-Mail| publisher = Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd| location = Brisbane, Australia| date = 22 August 2003| page = 18}}</ref>
He attended [[Newcastle Boys High School]].<ref name=COUMAI20030822>{{cite news| title = Hendo brought vigour and balance to the job (Obituary: Ian Henderson| first = Peter| last = Charlton| newspaper = Courier-Mail| publisher = Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd| location = Brisbane, Australia| date = 22 August 2003| page = 18}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==
At 18 he gained a cadetship with the then [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|Australian Broadcasting Commission]] in Sydney. By 1974 he was working for Radio 2GB when he was flown-in to [[Darwin]] to cover the aftermath of [[Cyclone Tracey]].<ref name=NewcH2006/>
At 18 he gained a cadetship with the then [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|Australian Broadcasting Commission]] in Sydney. By 1974 he was working for Macquarie National News when he was flown into [[Darwin, Northern Territory|Darwin]] to cover the aftermath of [[Cyclone Tracy]].<ref name=NewcH2006/>


He then re-joined the ABC where one of his first major assignments was the [[Coconut War]] in [[Vanuatu]]. His first overseas posting was to Japan in 1983.<ref name=NewcH2006/><ref name=ABCprofile>{{cite web |url = http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s1888147.htm?site=news |title = Peter Cave, ABC Current Affairs Foreign Editor. |date = 3 Apr 2007 |publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation.}}</ref>
He then re-joined the ABC where his first major international assignment was the [[Coconut War]] in The [[New Hebrides]]. His first overseas posting was to Japan (1983–1986).<ref name=NewcH2006/><ref name=ABCprofile>{{cite web |url = http://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s1888147.htm?site=news |title = Peter Cave, ABC Current Affairs Foreign Editor. |date = 3 April 2007 |publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation.}}</ref>


He later became the chief correspondent for Europe and the Middle East based in London and then bureau chief in Washington where he covered the election of [[George W Bush]].<ref name=ABCprofile/>
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).<ref name=ABCprofile/>


He returned to Australia to be the presenter of [[AM (ABC Radio)]] before his current appointment.<ref name=ABCprofile/>
He returned to Australia to be the presenter of [[AM (ABC Radio)]] before becoming Foreign Affairs Editor.<ref name=ABCprofile/>


In his career with the ABC he has also reported on the end of [[apartheid]] in South Africa, the Palestinian [[Wikt:intifada|intifada]] in the Occupied Territories, [[glasnost]] and [[perestroika]] in the former Soviet Union, the break-up of the [[former Yugoslavia]] and wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon, two [[Gulf war]]s, the fall of [[President Suharto]] in Indonesia, the first [[Bali Bombing]], three Fijian Coups, [[the troubles]] in Northern Ireland, the revolution in [[2011_Egyptian_protests|Egypt]] and the civil war in [[2011_Libyan_uprising|Libya]].<ref name=ABCprofile/>
In his career with the ABC he has also reported on the end of [[apartheid]] in South Africa, the Palestinian [[Wikt:intifada|intifada]] in the Occupied Territories, [[glasnost]] and [[perestroika]] in the former Soviet Union, the break-up of the [[former Yugoslavia]] and wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon, two [[Gulf War|Gulf war]]s, the fall of [[President Suharto]] in Indonesia, the civil unrest in East Timor, the first [[2002 Bali bombings|Bali Bombing]], three Fijian Coups, [[the troubles]] in Northern Ireland, the [[2011 Egyptian revolution]], the [[2011 Libyan civil war]].<ref name=ABCprofile/> and the uprising in Syria.


Peter has helped his fellow foreign correspondents with trauma training and peer support. He "helped pioneer the ABC's groundbreaking peer trauma support scheme."<ref name=ABCyou>{{cite web |url = http://www.abc.net.au/corp/communications/s2676984.htm |title = Peter Cave scores fellowship |date = 17 September 2009 |work = ABC You |publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation |accessdate = 29 July 2011 }}</ref> In 2009 he was awarded an Ochberg Fellowship by the [[Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma]] attending the Atlanta, George fellowship meeting and the [[International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies]] conference.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://dartcenter.org/people/ochberg-fellows |year = 2009 |title = Ochberg Fellows |publisher = Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Dart Centre. |accessdate = 29 July 2011 }}</ref><ref name=ABCyou/>
Peter has helped his fellow foreign correspondents with trauma training and peer support. He "helped pioneer the ABC's groundbreaking peer trauma support scheme."<ref name=ABCyou>{{cite web |url = http://www.abc.net.au/corp/communications/s2676984.htm |title = Peter Cave scores fellowship |date = 17 September 2009 |work = ABC You |publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation |accessdate = 29 July 2011 }}</ref> 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.<ref name=ABCyou/><ref>{{cite web |url = http://dartcenter.org/people/ochberg-fellows |year = 2009 |title = Ochberg Fellows |publisher = Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Dart Centre. |accessdate = 29 July 2011 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110725222846/http://dartcenter.org/people/ochberg-fellows |archive-date = 25 July 2011 |url-status = dead }}</ref>


==Walkley Awards==
==Walkley Awards==
Cave has won five [[Walkley Award]]s, Australian journalism's most prestigious accolades.<ref name=ABCprofile/>
Cave has won six [[Walkley Award]]s, Australian journalism's most prestigious accolades.<ref name=ABCprofile/>


===1989 Awards===
===1989 Awards===
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Cave was an ABC Radio reporter in Beijing in June 1989. Cave had been there for about a month interviewing the students, intellectuals and labour activists and had filed reports on "two half-hearted attempts" by the military to disperse the demonstrators and had a room with a balcony overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square. He has later said: "Just about everyone else had decided it was over and packed up," when at "about one in the morning I got a phone call from a colleague who had seen them run over a couple of people. I pulled back the blinds and saw an armoured personnel carrier go up and over a barricade and kill two people on bikes." With gunfire in the background he reported on the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]]. Cave won two awards for his reporting: the best radio news report award and the currents affairs award. Cave was "commended for outstanding journalism under particularly difficult circumstances".<ref name=NewcH2006/><ref>{{cite news| title = Herald Journalists Scoop Walkley Awards| newspaper = Sydney Morning Herald| publisher = John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd| location = Sydney| date = 17 October 1989 | page = 7| quote = In radio, the best news report and the current affairs awards were both taken by Peter Cave, of the ABC, for his reports from China. He was commended for outstanding journalism under particularly difficult circumstances.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title = Remembering Tiananmen| first = Peter| last = Cave| newspaper = Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts| publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation| date = 4 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title = CELEBRATING 70 YEARS: Defining moments in history.| author = Sue Williams and Sharon Krum| newspaper = The Australian Women's Weekly| publisher = ACP Publishing Pty Ltd.| date = 1 October 2003| quote = PETER CAVE "I had a room with a balcony overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square and I remember the troops coming in, and I saw quite a few people killed," says Peter Cave, then an ABC Radio reporter watching a pro-democracy rally by unarmed student demonstrators in June 1989. Suddenly, it turned into a bloody massacre when the military stormed in. Hundreds of students were killed and thousands more wounded. "To see the might of the state being used against a popular uprising was very depressing. I felt that people power was never going to be able to change anything," says Peter, now the ABC's foreign editor. }}</ref>
Cave was an ABC Radio reporter in Beijing with fellow ABC Radio correspondents Trevor Watson and Tony Hill in June 1989. Cave had been there for about a month interviewing the students, intellectuals and labour activists and had filed reports on "two
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half-hearted attempts" by the military to disperse the demonstrators and had a room with a balcony overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square. He has later said: "Just about everyone else had decided it was over and packed up," when at "about one in the morning I got a phone call from a colleague who had seen them run over a couple of people. I pulled back the blinds and saw an armoured personnel carrier go up and over a barricade and kill two people on bikes." He and Watson drove to the Square but were caught between two columns of troops and abandonned the car. With gunfire in the background he reported on the [[Tiananmen Square massacre]]. Cave won two awards for his reporting: the best radio news report award and the currents affairs award. Cave "was commended for outstanding journalism under particularly difficult circumstances." He was also nominated for the Gold Walkley.<ref>{{cite news| title = Herald Journalists Scoop Walkley Awards| newspaper = Sydney Morning Herald| publisher = John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd| location = Sydney| date = 17 October 1989 | page = 7| quote = In radio, the best news report and the current affairs awards were both taken by Peter Cave, of the ABC, for his reports from China. He was commended for outstanding journalism under particularly difficult circumstances.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title = Remembering Tiananmen| first = Peter| last = Cave| newspaper = Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts| publisher = Australian Broadcasting Corporation| date = 4 June 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title = CELEBRATING 70 YEARS: Defining moments in history.| author = Sue Williams and Sharon Krum| newspaper = The Australian Women's Weekly| publisher = ACP Publishing Pty Ltd.| date = 1 October 2003| quote = PETER CAVE "I had a room with a balcony overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square and I remember the troops coming in, and I saw quite a few people killed," says Peter Cave, then an ABC Radio reporter watching a pro-democracy rally by unarmed student demonstrators in June 1989. Suddenly, it turned into a bloody massacre when the military stormed in. Hundreds of students were killed and thousands more wounded. "To see the might of the state being used against a popular uprising was very depressing. I felt that people power was never going to be able to change anything," says Peter, now the ABC's foreign editor. }}</ref><ref name=NewcH2006/>


===1990 Award===
===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.<ref>{{cite news| title = Digest breakfast, then face Casey.| first = Bronwyn| last = Watson| newspaper = Sydney Morning Herald| publisher = John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd| location = Sydney| date = 12 November 1990| page = 5 (The Guide)}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite news| title = Digest breakfast, then face Casey.| first = Bronwyn| last = Watson| newspaper = Sydney Morning Herald| publisher = John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd| location = Sydney| date = 12 November 1990| page = 5 (The Guide)}}</ref>


===2004 Awards===
===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."<ref name=NewcH2006/> Cave was allowed to speak to Hamill and the resulting report was an international exclusive; [[Michael Moore]] used some of the footage in [[Fahrenheit 9/11]]. Cave won two Walkley Awards for the story: one for the radio news report, another for the television report he pieced together after.<ref name=STMag2004>{{cite news| title = News sensation| first = Juanita| last = Phillips| newspaper = Sunday Telegraph Magazine| publisher = News Ltd.| location = Sydney| date = 19 December 2004| page = 25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title = No biff as Walkleys reward luck over Thorpie's big break| first = Mark| last = Day| newspaper = The Australian| publisher = News Ltd.| date = 9 December 2004| page = 20| }}</ref>
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."<ref name=NewcH2006/> Cave was allowed to speak to Hamill and the resulting report was an international exclusive; [[Michael Moore]] used some of the footage in [[Fahrenheit 9/11]]. Cave won two Walkley Awards for the story: one for the radio news report, another for his television news report .<ref name=STMag2004>{{cite news| title = News sensation| first = Juanita| last = Phillips| newspaper = Sunday Telegraph Magazine| publisher = News Ltd.| location = Sydney| date = 19 December 2004| page = 25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| title = No biff as Walkleys reward luck over Thorpie's big break| first = Mark| last = Day| newspaper = The Australian| publisher = News Ltd.| date = 9 December 2004| page = 20}}</ref>


==Family Life==
===2012 Award===
[[Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism]]<ref>Walkleys booklet 2012 http://www.walkleys.com/files/media/WalkleyAwardWinners2012Booklet.pdf</ref>

==Family life==
Peter is married and has two adult sons.<ref name=NewcH2006/>
Peter is married and has two adult sons.<ref name=NewcH2006/>


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Peter Cave
portrait of Peter Cave
Born1952
Newcastle, New South Wales
CitizenshipAustralian
EducationNewcastle Boys High School
OccupationForeign editor / journalist
Years active1971–2012
EmployerIn retirement

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

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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.[1][2]

He attended Newcastle Boys High School.[3]

Career

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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.[1]

He then re-joined the ABC where his first major international assignment was the Coconut War in The New Hebrides. His first overseas posting was to Japan (1983–1986).[1][4]

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).[4]

He returned to Australia to be the presenter of AM (ABC Radio) before becoming Foreign Affairs Editor.[4]

In his career with the ABC he has also reported on the end of apartheid in South Africa, the Palestinian intifada in the Occupied Territories, glasnost and perestroika in the former Soviet Union, the break-up of the former Yugoslavia and wars in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon, two Gulf wars, the fall of President Suharto in Indonesia, the civil unrest in East Timor, the first Bali Bombing, three Fijian Coups, the troubles in Northern Ireland, the 2011 Egyptian revolution, the 2011 Libyan civil war.[4] and the uprising in Syria.

Peter has helped his fellow foreign correspondents with trauma training and peer support. He "helped pioneer the ABC's groundbreaking peer trauma support scheme."[5] 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.[5][6]

Walkley Awards

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Cave has won six Walkley Awards, Australian journalism's most prestigious accolades.[4]

1989 Awards

[edit]

Cave was an ABC Radio reporter in Beijing in June 1989. Cave had been there for about a month interviewing the students, intellectuals and labour activists and had filed reports on "two half-hearted attempts" by the military to disperse the demonstrators and had a room with a balcony overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square. He has later said: "Just about everyone else had decided it was over and packed up," when at "about one in the morning I got a phone call from a colleague who had seen them run over a couple of people. I pulled back the blinds and saw an armoured personnel carrier go up and over a barricade and kill two people on bikes." With gunfire in the background he reported on the Tiananmen Square massacre. Cave won two awards for his reporting: the best radio news report award and the currents affairs award. Cave was "commended for outstanding journalism under particularly difficult circumstances".[1][7][8][9]

1990 Award

[edit]

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.[10]

2004 Awards

[edit]

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."[1] Cave was allowed to speak to Hamill and the resulting report was an international exclusive; Michael Moore used some of the footage in Fahrenheit 9/11. Cave won two Walkley Awards for the story: one for the radio news report, another for his television news report .[11][12]

2012 Award

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Walkley Award for Most Outstanding Contribution to Journalism[13]

Family life

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Peter is married and has two adult sons.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Quinn, Ben (1 July 2006). "The Truth Hurts". Newcastle Herald. Newcastle, New South Wales: John Fairfax Holdings Limited. p. 14.
  2. ^ Commonwealth of Australia. Electoral Roll. Division of Shortland. 1954. Sub-division of Waratah. Frederick David Cave and Betty Cave.
  3. ^ Charlton, Peter (22 August 2003). "Hendo brought vigour and balance to the job (Obituary: Ian Henderson". Courier-Mail. Brisbane, Australia: Queensland Newspapers Pty Ltd. p. 18.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Peter Cave, ABC Current Affairs Foreign Editor". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 3 April 2007.
  5. ^ a b "Peter Cave scores fellowship". ABC You. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 17 September 2009. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  6. ^ "Ochberg Fellows". Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Dart Centre. 2009. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  7. ^ "Herald Journalists Scoop Walkley Awards". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney: John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd. 17 October 1989. p. 7. In radio, the best news report and the current affairs awards were both taken by Peter Cave, of the ABC, for his reports from China. He was commended for outstanding journalism under particularly difficult circumstances.
  8. ^ Cave, Peter (4 June 2009). "Remembering Tiananmen". Australian Broadcasting Corporation Transcripts. Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
  9. ^ Sue Williams and Sharon Krum (1 October 2003). "CELEBRATING 70 YEARS: Defining moments in history". The Australian Women's Weekly. ACP Publishing Pty Ltd. PETER CAVE "I had a room with a balcony overlooking Beijing's Tiananmen Square and I remember the troops coming in, and I saw quite a few people killed," says Peter Cave, then an ABC Radio reporter watching a pro-democracy rally by unarmed student demonstrators in June 1989. Suddenly, it turned into a bloody massacre when the military stormed in. Hundreds of students were killed and thousands more wounded. "To see the might of the state being used against a popular uprising was very depressing. I felt that people power was never going to be able to change anything," says Peter, now the ABC's foreign editor.
  10. ^ Watson, Bronwyn (12 November 1990). "Digest breakfast, then face Casey". Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney: John Fairfax Group Pty Ltd. p. 5 (The Guide).
  11. ^ Phillips, Juanita (19 December 2004). "News sensation". Sunday Telegraph Magazine. Sydney: News Ltd. p. 25.
  12. ^ Day, Mark (9 December 2004). "No biff as Walkleys reward luck over Thorpie's big break". The Australian. News Ltd. p. 20.
  13. ^ Walkleys booklet 2012 http://www.walkleys.com/files/media/WalkleyAwardWinners2012Booklet.pdf
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