Jay Price
Military ReporterJay Price has specialized in covering the military for nearly a decade.
Before joining ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾, 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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The Moore County Sheriff's Office has applied for several warrants related to the attacks that cut power for most county residents. -
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. -
In what will likely be their only debate together, Democrat Cheri Beasley and Republican Ted Budd took questions Friday night at the Spectrum News studio in Raleigh. -
The idea is to take on micro-level problems that major military research facilities might not prioritize, says Lieutenant Colonel Kyle Kirby who will head the new lab. -
Lawyers are aggressively advertising potential windfalls for people exposed to contaminated water at the base. But it's too soon to know how the claim process will play out. -
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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Lawyers are aggressively advertising potential windfalls for people exposed to contaminated water at the base. But it's too soon to know how the claim process will play out. -
The Army is thousands of enlistees short for the recruiting year ending in September, so it is trying something else: prep courses for written test scores and weight loss programs to make the grade.
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The Future Soldier Preparatory Course hopes to give potential recruits who are just short of meeting U.S. Army physical or academic standards the small boost they need.
