{"id":6,"date":"2010-08-02T10:20:17","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T08:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T12:09:49","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CoverAfrica<\/strong> is run by media director\/manager, Claude Colart.<\/p>\n<p>He brings more than 3 decades of\u00a0 field and newsroom experience in international media including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>European Producer for NHK<\/li>\n<li>Senior Field Producer, Europe &amp; Africa Editor, and Deputy Managing Editor for Associated Press TV<\/li>\n<li>Head of Buro and Senior News Producer Africa for Al Jazeera English<\/li>\n<li>Africa producer for Sky News<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He was part of the team that grew APTV into a major international television agency.<\/p>\n<p>He was a driving force in the creation of the network of African buros for Al Jazeera English.<\/p>\n<p>He produced for correspondents\/anchors like Alex Crawford, Stuart Ramsey, Andrew Wilson, Andrew Simmons, Jeremy Thompson, Mohammed Adow, Mike Hanna,\u2026 (just to name a few).<\/p>\n<p>Claude is also co-editer of \u201cSomething To Write Home About. Reflections from the heart of history\u201d (Jacana Media, 2004).<\/p>\n<p><strong>CoverAfrica<\/strong>\u00a0is an equal opportunity venture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kid.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-82\" title=\"CoverAfrica\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kid.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kid.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/kid-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CoverAfrica is run by media director\/manager, Claude Colart. He brings more than 3 decades of\u00a0 field and newsroom experience in international media including: European Producer for NHK Senior Field Producer, Europe &amp; Africa Editor, and Deputy Managing Editor for Associated Press TV Head of Buro and Senior News Producer Africa for Al Jazeera English Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coverafrica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}