Patten is a columnist and feature writer at The Wrap, Hollywood's  digital town crier looking at the culture and business of Tinseltown. Following the dirty deals and scandals of Hollywood at his LA Noir column, Patten also offers his take on celebrity culture, Presidential politics, Betty White, rock'n'roll, the NoBrow tabloid obsessions of modern America and a touch of everything in-between.

A popular guest and pundit on many shows across North America, Patten's work as a journalist, broadcaster, filmmaker and author, has covered everything from music, film, politics, technology, and youth culture to highbrow and lowbrow art, Asian, Hispanic and Islamic culture, sports, Las Vegas casinos, fashion, history and NASA. Patten, who has be called "a 21st Century mix between Axl Rose and Charlie Rose," has been interviewed by many media outlets including the BBC, Sirius Radio, NPR, and has appeared frequently on many news programs as well as on MuchMoreMusic, the Canadian equivalent of VH-1, CNN, the Biography Channel and E! Network in the U.S.

From 2006 to May 2008, Patten was the Arts and Life Editor and Chief Features Editor of The Vancouver Sun, where he was a major innovator in bringing populist energy, change, new voices, and focus to the paper - both in its print capacity and in strong and original online initiatives. He has written for The The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The International Herald Tribune, Salon.com, The Washington Times, The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Toronto Star, and The National Post. His Salon.com article "Rising body count" about the controversy surrounding Oliver Stone's film Natural Born Killers was used as a discussion text in the University of Louisiana's film department.

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Formerly the Culture Correspondent for the CTV National News in Canada, Patten was also the Host of 21©, CTV's groundbreaking prime time youth current affairs series from 2001 to 2004. Co-creator of 21©, Patten served as the series Senior Producer during Season One. In 2003 Patten personally was nominated for a Gemini Award, the Canadian equivalent of the Emmys, for Best News Magazine Segment for "Out of Control," his study of Parent Abuse.

Patten's strong commitment to innovative and original journalism, especially online where the show was one of the first in North America to offer regular chats with the host and correspondents and stream the entire show online, helped make 21© a success for CTV.

Before joining CTV, Patten was a correspondent for CBC TV's award-winning media series Undercurrents. Patten specialized in the unconventional and offbeat. He went deep into the dirty secrets of the Soviet Empire's Mind Control experiments at Moscow's Institute of Psycho-Corrections; the dirty underbelly of the American heartland with the crème-de-la-crème of conspiracy theorists; and examined the marketing machines that made an idol of Britney Spears.

Patten has also worked as a documentary filmmaker, a radio host, a media/branding consultant, a freelance commercial and video director. Additionally he has made political commercials and PSAs, and served as a Producer for some of the leading production companies in Canada.

Itinerant and contrarian by nature, Patten has lived in England, Spain, and the U.S. and all over Canada. He's wrangled his way into presidential inaugurations, Oxfordshire garden parties, the Dubai World Cup, pen pals with William S. Burroughs, backstage with Nirvana, on a float in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and hosted An Evening With Jackie Chan in front of 35,000 at Toronto's SkyDome stadium.

Patten served as a founding Board member for Business for Diplomatic Action, a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting public diplomacy and citizenship. BDA, to whom Patten is currently a senior advisor, has been the subject of feature articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and the Chicago Sun-Times, among others.

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