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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Six houses have collapsed into the waves at Rodanthe this year, and 11 in the past four years. With much of the buffering beach and dunes eaten away by erosion, more are poised to fall in any time. The question is becoming not how to save such houses, but rather how to remove them before they collapse. -
Leoneda Inge chats with WUNC reporter Jay Price about his reporting on the regional VA's efforts to provide aid to high-risk veterans in Western NC. -
More than a month after Hurricane Helene devastated mountain communities across Western North Carolina, the VA is still sending out teams to check on isolated veterans and bring them supplies.
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In the North Carolina mountains, the VA is making house calls to veterans still isolated from HeleneMore than a month after Helene, the Asheville VA Medical Center is still sending teams out to check on thousands of military veterans in western North Carolina. Many have serious health problems and are isolated and having trouble getting around. -
Homes have been falling into the ocean on North Carolina's Outer Banks at an accelerated rate and there's no money to dismantle them before they drift off
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WUNC’s military reporter Jay Price flew with National Guard troops who were dropping off food and water to residents, many who have been without power and water for more than a week now. -
National Guard helicopter crews are playing a key role in the military's response to Helene, especially for communities that remain inaccessible by roads. -
The Army is emphasizing a simple way to improve troops' readiness: making sure they get enough sleepA study found that the military is doing a lot to improve troops' sleep habits, but most service members still get less sleep than the Pentagon recommends. -
Ryan Wesley Routh, who previously lived in Greensboro, was convicted of weapons charges and other crimes in North Carolina. -
Moore County officials cited the North Carolina "Castle Doctrine" in the death of Ramzan Daraev. The law allows residents to use deadly force against intruders on their property.
