Charles dharapak biography
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Charles Dharapak is the Managing Editor for Multimedia at Radio Free Asia (RFA).
The appointment was announced Monday by Ted Anthony, the AP's director of Asia-Pacific news, to whom Dharapak will report.
"As much as anyone I've met in our profession, Charlie gets it," Anthony said. "He is not only a wonderful photographer but an extremely nimble mind and an innovator in all forms of journalism.
I'm excited to see what he'll do to help us make our news report more useful to our customers and more finely tuned to the Asia-Pacific region's increasingly digital audiences."
Dharapak, 43, has been based in Washington for the AP since and frequently travels with the president on Air Force One.
Since he has covered the White House under Bush and Obama, national politics, and the , and presidential campaigns. Recently he has taken a visible role in advocating greater press access under the Obama administration.
He joined the AP in as a staff photographer based in Southeast Asia.
While based in Bangkok, he covered the Cambodian civil war and the democracy movement in M