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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A restoration effort in underway at the site of Montford Point, a 1940s-era segregated Marine base in North Carolina, which is threatened by the effects of climate change. -
The State Partnership Program has quietly become a powerful tool for diplomacy and modeling U.S. values around the world.
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According to the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, new reported cases have jumped more than 50% since last week to 7,279. Hospitalizations increased by 36 patients.
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The earthquake was the biggest in North Carolina since 1916.
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Some of Bragg’s most prominent streets — including Bragg Boulevard and Reilly Road — are on the list.
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Raleigh’s inventory fell the most among the nation’s 50 largest metro areas, down more than two-thirds since 2020.
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If this happens – it won’t be soon. It could be 20 years or more before a replacement is built and the current facility is shut down. And not only would it be replaced by another VA medical center in the Raleigh-Durham area, but the recommendations include building a VA outpatient facility the size of a small hospital.
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Another group of Fort Bragg soldiers is heading to Europe because of tensions surrounding the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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The Pentagon is testing hundreds of military sites around the country for contamination from chemicals known by the acronym PFAS, which have been linked to health problems such as cancer.
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Hundreds of Fort Bragg troops are deploying to eastern Europe this week. They're part of a force of about 4,700 soldiers from the base who have been sent to Poland amid fears that Russia may invade Ukraine.
