Jay Price
Military and Veterans Affairs Reporter, North Carolina Public Radio - WUNCJay Price is the military and veterans affairs reporter for North Carolina Public Radio - WUNC.
He specialized in covering the military for nearly a decade and traveled four times each to Iraq and Afghanistan for the N&O and its parent company, McClatchy Newspapers. He spent most of 2013 as the Kabul bureau chief for McClatchy.
Price’s other assignments have included covering the aftermaths of Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana and Mississippi and a series of deadly storms in Haiti.
He was a fellow at the Knight Medical Evidence boot camp at MIT in 2012 and the California Endowment’s Health Journalism Fellowship at USC in 2014.
He was part of a team that was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for its work covering the damage in the wake of Hurricane Floyd, and another team that won the Sigma Delta Chi Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for a series of reports on the private security contractor Blackwater.
He has reported from Asia, Latin America, and Europe and written free-lance stories for The Baltimore Sun, Outside magazine and Sailing World.
Price is a North Carolina native and UNC-Chapel Hill graduate. He lives with his wife and daughter in Chapel Hill.
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In the North Carolina mountains, the VA is making house calls to veterans still isolated from HeleneWhile conditions have improved after the storm hit in September, but some veterans remain without electricity and cut off by damaged roads. -
More than 6000 National Guardsmen have been deployed to the Helene relief effort. With many roads and bridges knocked out, much of their work is being done by helicopter. -
The Army is emphasizing a simple way to improve troops' readiness: making sure they get enough sleepA study found that the Pentagon is doing a lot to improve troops' sleep habits, but more needs to be done. -
A variety of health problems have been linked to contaminated water on the North Carolina Marine Corps base between 1953 and 1987. -
Supporters say cyber threats from China and other rivals require a dedicated force. But opponents argue that's unnecessary and risky. -
Scientific advances have allowed the Army to identify about 200 sets of remains each year - dating back to World War II. But the passage of time has complicated the process of finding families to accept the remains. -
Hamas' elaborate tunnels in Gaza have brought attention to underground warfare, but it's a tactic used by many other potential U.S. adversaries. -
The Marine Corps says the private companies that make military uniforms fell behind because of COVID-related labor shortages and inflation. -
The U.S. will bestow Congressional Gold Medals on members of a secret Army unit that carried out what came to be known as psychological operations. -
Historians said the renamings – like the removal of many Confederate statues in recent years – are part of a more accurate understanding of the Confederacy.
