Patten, who up until recently 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 online - has written for The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune, Salon.com, The Washington Times, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Vancouver Sun, 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.

Formerly the Culture Correspondent for the CTV National News with Lloyd Robertson in Canada, Patten was also the Host of 21©, CTV's groundbreaking prime time youth current affairs series. Co-creator of 21©, Patten served as the series Senior Producer during Season One.

Patten's strong commitment to innovation, originality, and populism helped make 21© both a critical and a ratings success for CTV.

Before joining CTV in 2001, Patten was a producer and on-air 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 teen idols of Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys.

A popular guest and pundit on many shows across North America, Patten's work as a journalist, filmmaker and author, has covered everything from music, film, politics, technology, and youth culture to highbrow and lowbrow art, Asian and Hispanic culture, sports, Las Vegas casinos, fashion, history and NASA. Patten has been interviewed on the BBC, NPR, and has appeared frequently on MuchMoreMusic, the Canadian equivalent of VH-1, and on the Biography Channel in the U.S.

On radio, Patten produced and hosted a number of documentaries for CBC Radio's This Morning and Out Front, among other shows. More recently, he has frequently guest hosted the morning show on Vancouver's 1410 AM.

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

As a filmmaker, Patten has worked on numerous documentaries, including the award winning The Riot at Christie Pits. Most noticeably the director of Spacejunk for CHUM's Space: The Imagination Station. A road movie that was primarily shot at the Marshall Space Center in Alabama and Cape Canaveral in Florida, Spacejunk featured not only a tour of some of the most restricted areas of NASA facilities, but also a visit to the rarely seen burial site of the Challenger Space Shuttle. And a not altogether successful attempt to buy some spacejunk - actually an Atlas rocket - from a local scrap metal dealer.

Itinerant by nature, Patten has lived in England, Spain, the U.S. and all over Canada. He's wrangled his way into presidential inaugurations, Oxfordshire garden parties, the Dubai World Cup, penpals 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 on the Board of Business for Diplomatic Action, a US-based non-profit organization dedicated to promoting public diplomacy and citizenship. BDA, to whom Patten is currently an advisor, has been the subject of feature articles in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, and the Chicago Sun-Times, among others.

Patten is represented by the Westwood Creative Agency, which can be reached at 416-964-3302