As a director/editor at BBC News, Carey is credited with the creation of the Newsnight current affairs programme in 1980,[REF][REF] before going on to become Editor of BBC1's Panorama during the Falklands War [REF].
He served for four years as a board member for Conciliation Resources, an international non-governmental organization,[REF] and for two years as Chairman of Trustees of the House of Illustration.