Blog: www.myurbanreport.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/urbanreporter

Amani Channel is an award-winning video producer, and specializes in traditional, and new media.

He is the content manager at Public Broadcasting Atlanta for the www.lensonatlanta.org social community. He is also the founder of a media consulting, video production company called Visual Eye Media. The company offers high definition video production services, media training, and social media solutions for companies, organizations, and individuals.

His content, commentaries, and reports have been featured on on NPR, APTN (Associated Press Television News), CNN, Headline News, BET, Black Family Channel, HDNews, local news stations and across the Web.

Channel also writes and vlogs at www.MyUrbanReport.com. HIs site focuses on new media production, tutorials, and urban issues. He’s produced hundreds of video podcasts, and mobile videos that are distributed across the Web. He shoots, edits, and is the talent for the videos. In addition, he is the host of on online TV show called www.mediaconnection.tv.

In 2009, Channel was honored by the Telly Awards and Marcom Awards for media projects he wrote, produced, and directed for Oglethorpe University and Metro Atlanta YouthBuild.

Channel also speaks at conferences, workshops, and universities across the country about traditional and new media. He’s taught video production at Hillsborough Community College, and the Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Tampa, FL, and Kennesaw State University.

He is currently working towards completing a Masters in Mass Communications from the University of South Florida.
His thesis is titled: “Gatekeeping and Citizen Journalism: A Qualitative Examination of Participatory Media.”

Website: www.visualeyemedia.com