Jay Price
Jay 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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Seventeen years ago Wednesday, a sniper almost killed Major Justin Constantine in Iraq. He survived and marked the day for years as his so-called "Alive Day."
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Confederate General Braxton Bragg's name was recently stripped from the nation's largest Army base. The name change has since become a presidential campaign talking point.
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Lawsuits about tainted water at Camp Lejeune are reaching the district court charged with hearing them. Its four judges are set on managing the case as they face possibly tens of thousands of suits.
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A new project by a North Carolina non-profit group is using artificial intelligence to better understand – and maybe reduce – military suicide.
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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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A new law makes it easier for people to sue the government for illnesses from contaminated water at Camp Lejeune. The legal action could become one of the largest mass civil cases in history.
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Not just for the super fit, gravel bike racing has exploded into one of the most popular forms of biking in the U.S. Organizers have worked so that everyone feels included and welcome.
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After years of fighting insurgent forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, the U.S. military has shifted its focus to technologically-advanced opponents, especially China. The Marine Corps is taking the lead.
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Key buildings at a 1940s-era segregated Marine base in North Carolina are being restored. The structures at Montford Point, which were used by the first Black Marines, trained roughly 20,000 men.
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In the 1940s about 20,000 men trained on racially segregated Montford Point in North Carolina. Some of the 300 surviving Marines recently returned for the reopening of a restored museum honoring them.