CHATHAM, Mass. — Kenneth Lawrence Whiting, a reporter and bureau chief for The Associated Press in Africa and southeast Asia for more than three decades, has died. He was 78.
His wife, Holly, said Wednesday that Whiting was surrounded by his spouse and children when he died at his home in Chatham on March 27 of complications from a liver ailment.
Whiting began his career as a cub reporter for the Lynn Item in Massachusetts. He graduated from Boston University and got his first assignment with the AP in Camden, Maine. He later worked in Chicago and New York before heading overseas.
Whiting is survived by a wife, son, daughter and five grandchildren.
The family plans private cremation and memorial services. No date has been set.