March 2017
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About Alan
ALAN CHAMPION is an expert in Broadcast Communications, Content Creation, Public Relations and Group/Interpersonal Development. He hails over 30-years employment experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors in Film/Television, Publicity and Program Management.
Champion has been employed as a Broadcast Journalist since 1976, after completing Graduate School. He has been a Producer, Associate Producer, Researcher/Content Analyst, Writer and Assistant Editor at WGBH, CBS NEWS, ABC NEWS, NBC NEWS, WNET/Thirteen, The Children’s Television Workshop, ESSENCE Television Productions, Inc., The Learning Channel, and at Black Entertainment Television (BET). While attending Graduate School in Boston, MA, he worked as a Content Analyst on “REBOP,” a children’s TV show, and conducted extensive formative research for the Emmy-Award winning children’s TV science series, “3-2-1 Contact.” He also worked as an Assistant Reporter for WNAC TV. Other noteworthy programs he has worked on are ABC’s “THE BURNING QUESTIONS,” a weekly, hour-long documentary series; CBS’ “THIRTY-MINUTES,” a teenage adaptation of its esteemed precursor, “60-Minutes”; WNET’s “BILL MOYER’S JOURNAL”; “ESSENCE,” an NBC TV, weekly, one-hour series, noted for its acclaimed “Sarah Vaughan Special”; The Learning Channel’s “AFRICAN-AMERICAN’S PERSPECTIVE OF THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL AND VERDICT”; and Black Entertainment Television’s “BIOGRAPHIES IN BLACK” profile series. He has also worked as a freelance Publicist at RCA, Virgin and Warner Brothers’ Records, developing press campaigns and promotionals for new artists.
Today, Champion is a Film and Television Writer/Content Creator for CHAMPION FILM, Inc.
Champion holds a B.A. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University, where he graduated Valedictorian, with a duo major in English and Design ; M.A. degree from Boston University in Communications and Media Studies; and a Ed.M. degree from Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology, wherein Gerry Lesser, founder of Sesame Street, 3-2-1 Contact and the Electric Company was his advisor.
Allied Studies include: NYU: Advanced Screenwriting; Reporting/Producing News; Entertainment Law for Producers; Anchoring TV News; New School: The Business of Screenwriting; HG Studios: Acting I. Memberships include: The National Honor Society of America; Phi Beta Kappa Honorary Society, (Harvard University Chapter); Harvardwood, and MoMA. He is also an American Civil Liberties Union, Children’s Aid Society, Leslie-Lohman Museum volunteer, and member of WGA.
Unique traits: Having worked as a Broadcast Journalist for over 35 years, I tend to develop content which, initially, is fact-based, but, that veers off into fictive narratives. I am a nontraditional content creator as I mixed/amalgam genres, delve into journalistic/contemporized issues and explore aberrant resolutions/syntheses. I like writing nonlinear narratives that are credible yet, fantastical with excruciating close-ups and unique/provocative story-lines.
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Producer, Writer, AP, Researcher
Television by Various Concerns I've worked as Producer, Associate Producer, Researcher/Content Analyst, Writer and Assistant Editor at WGBH, CBS NEWS, ABC NEWS, NBC NEWS, WNET/Thirteen, The Children’s Television Workshop, ESSENCE Television Productions, Inc., The Learning Channel, and at Black Entertainment Television (BET). While attending Graduate School in Boston, MA, he worked as a Content Analyst on “REBOP,” a children’s TV show, and conducted extensive formative research for the Emmy-Award winning children’s TV science series, “3-2-1 Contact.” He also worked as an Assistant Reporter for WNAC TV. Other noteworthy programs he has worked on are ABC’s “THE BURNING QUESTIONS,” a weekly, hour-long documentary series; CBS’ “THIRTY-MINUTES,” a teenage adaptation of its esteemed precursor, “60-Minutes”; WNET’s “BILL MOYER’S JOURNAL”; “ESSENCE,” an NBC TV, weekly, one-hour series, noted for its acclaimed “Sarah Vaughan Special”; The Learning Channel’s “AFRICAN-AMERICAN’S PERSPECTIVE OF THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL AND VERDICT”; and Black Entertainment Television’s “BIOGRAPHIES IN BLACK” profile series.
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National Honor Society; Validictorian, College of Fine Arts at Carnegie-Mellon U.; Phi Beta Kappa.
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"30 Minutes" won Emmys; "The Burning Questions won Emmys; REBOP won Emmys. Ragtime received Academy,
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Golden Globe, BAFTA, Grammy, Los Angeles Film Critic Association, NAACP Image, New York Film Critics
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Circle and Writers Guild of America nominations and awards.
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