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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In the U.S., racing on gravel roads has become the dominant form of bike racing in just a few years. Organizers have prioritized diversity and inclusiveness in a way that other sports have not. -
The military's recruiting issues are being blamed on the strong job market and a variety of other factors. But there's little hard data pointing to any specific cause. -
Of the nine Army bases the government plans to rename, Fort Bragg is the only one that won't carry the name of a person. -
Nearly seven decades after a Black Army private named Sarah Keys helped end discrimination on interstate buses, North Carolina is recognizing her nearly-forgotten civil rights case. -
A similar project begins in Avon later this month, and others are scheduled to start throughout the summer in Buxton, Nags Head, Kitty Hawk, Southern Shores and Duck. -
In North Carolina, key buildings at a 1940s-era segregated Marine base are being restored. The structures at Montford Point, now part of Camp Lejeune, were used by the first Black Marines. -
Behind some of the success of the Ukrainian military against Russia is a little-known U.S. initiative, one built around state national guards.
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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. -
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.
