Dan Patterson

Dan Patterson covers the technology trends that shape politics, business, and culture. He specializes in cybersecurity and emerging technologies like AI and machine learning, blockchain, IoT, and metaverse. Previously he was the tech reporter for CBS News, a senior producer at CNET, a senior reporter at TechRepublic, the digital platform manager at ABC News Radio, and a writer at various media companies.

Dan has produced stories from conflict regions in Africa and the Middle East, presidential primaries and conventions, the UN in New York and Geneva, and technology events like CES, SXSW, Black Hat, and the World Economic Forum in Davos. He has interviewed entertainers Willie Nelson and Chuck D, Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa, Secretary of State Antony Blinkin, hacker Kevin Mitnick, entrepreneur Kathy Ireland, senior officials at Google, Microsoft, Meta, and more.

His career began on college radio, and Dan was an early innovator in podcasting and video streaming. His story Angels of Death: Gun trafficking on the Iron Pipeline won the Donald Robinson Award for Investigative Journalism, and Inside the War on Truth won a Silver Telly Award.