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Charles Dharapak’s Biography

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Charles Dharapak is the Managing Editor for Multimedia at Radio Free Asia (RFA). He's an award-winning journalist, editor, and leader of multi-platform content creation teams producing video, audio, text, and photo across digital, social and broadcast channels.

At Meta, he led a team of journalists publishing top stories to Facebook News Tab, bringing news, trends, and content experiences to global audiences.

Working in the tech sector, Dharapak has collaborated across product, operations and …

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RFA Names Charlie Dharapak as new Managing Editor for Multimedia

RFA Names Charlie Dharapak as new Managing Editor for Multimedia

WASHINGTON- Radio Free Asia (RFA) today announced Charlie Dharapak as its Managing Editor for Multimedia to o…

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Excellence in International Reporting - AAJA Awards

Excellence in International Reporting - AAJA Awards

“Battling a dictatorship, building a democracy: In the jungles of eastern Myanmar, insurgents fight the junta…

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COVID-19 quarantine in Thailand: great food, shame about my underpants

COVID-19 quarantine in Thailand: great food, shame about my underpants

Ever wondered what two weeks in a Thai government-run coronavirus quarantine facility might be like? Then won…

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VIDEO: Life under coronavirus government quarantine in Thailand

VIDEO: Life under coronavirus government quarantine in Thailand

Video by Charles Dharapak. Thailand is requiring all returning citizens to undergo 14-day government quaranti…

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Newsweek/Daily Beast Interview: Charles Dharapak

Newsweek/Daily Beast Interview: Charles Dharapak

Only 90 minutes after speaking to an audience at the Newseum, the Associated Press's Charles Dharapak caught …

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Jakarta's Food Scene is on the Rise

Jakarta's Food Scene is on the Rise

A strong metric for charting regional capitals is the sophistication of their food scenes. Photographed by Ch…

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In their words: How recent presidents have honored America’s fallen on Memorial Day

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President George W. Bush is assisted by an unidentified member of the honor guard as he lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns during a Memorial Day ceremony, Monday, May 26, 2008, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Associated Press File Photo WASHINGTON — From Arlington National Cemetery outside the nation’s capital to the American burial ground in Normandy, France, presidents customarily commemorate Memorial Day on hallowed ground.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first paid gig was freelancing for a neighborhood newspaper in TriBeCa, New York. I got paid $25 for a photograph of a veterinarian.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Of course! Typing class was compulsory in 7th grade. Thank you New York City Public Schools system!

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

The photojournalist as played by Dennis Hopper in Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now.
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