Jay Price
Military ReporterJay Price has specialized in covering the military for nearly a decade.
Before joining WUNC, he was a senior reporter for the News & Observer in Raleigh, where he 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 included higher education, research and health care. He covered 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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Faced with a recruiting crisis, the Army has dusted off one of its most popular slogans: "Be All You Can Be." But will that prove popular with a new generation of potential recruits?
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The U.S. is strengthening ties with several Pacific nations in an effort to expand influence in the region and counter China.
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The new marketing campaign is based around the tagline, "Be All You Can Be," which was originally featured in Army ads during the 1980s and 1990s. -
The agreements with smaller countries are designed to expand American influence in the region, solidify existing relationships, and give the U.S. military more footholds.
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Joining a national trend, Durham is dispatching mental health teams — not police — to some 911 callsThe unarmed community response teams are designed to respond to the vast majority of 911 calls, which don't involve violent crime.
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The Navy has raised its age limit from 39 to 41 - the oldest of any of the services. But the Navy’s national chief recruiter said data shows older recruits can do well.
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Specialist Enrique Roman-Martinez disappeared on Labor Day weekend in 2020 while camping with a group of fellow 82nd Airborne Division soldiers on Cape Lookout.
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The Moore County Sheriff's Office has applied for several warrants related to the attacks that cut power for most county residents.
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Investigators say gunfire damaged two power substations on Saturday in Moore County, N.C., cutting off electricity for tens of thousands of people.
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The service organization is closing some of its centers, opening new ones, and expanding its online programs to respond to funding reductions and troops' changing needs.
