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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Three counties have declared a state of emergency after flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Chantal led to damaged roads, businesses and homes, as well as two deaths. -
After a post-pandemic crisis, military recruiters are on a winning streak again. What's behind the turnaround?
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The Pentagon said January was the Army's best recruiting month in 15 years. That continued an upswing in military enlistments that began before Trump's election. -
The Army has unveiled plans to require identical fitness tests for men and women in combat positions. The debate over women in combat is an old one.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered a review of combat physical standards. Women who've served in combat jobs say ten years of experience has proven they're up to the task. -
The remains of one of the final victims of the Pearl Harbor bombing have been identified and brought to North Carolina. Neil Frye was 20 years old, and serving as a Mess Attendant 3rd Class in the Navy on the U.S.S. West Virginia. -
Eighty-three years after the Pearl Harbor attack, a Black sailor is buried with military honors this week. For his family, it's long awaited closure.
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Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor. -
Neil Frye, who was 20 years old when he was killed, was a mess attendant on the USS West Virginia when it was attacked at Pearl Harbor.
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The federal firings have affected an estimated 6000 veterans, who make up a disproportionate share of the government workforce.
