Education
Duke University.
Duke University.
He has worked as a staff writer for the Post since 1998, and covered the Maryland Statehouse in Annapolis and the Prince George"s County police department for almost six years, Whitlock served as the paper"s Berlin bureau chief and covered terrorism networks in Europe, South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. He has reported from over 50 countries. Before working for The Washington Post, he served as a reporter for the Raleigh News & Observer.
He graduated from Unionville High School where he was editor-in-chief of the school newspaper, The Indian Post.
He then went on to Duke University where he was editor of student paper The Chronicle, and has also reported for The News and Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina Whitlock is the son of Doctor Robert Whitlock, a professor of veterinary medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.