Dan Patterson is the Director of Content and Communication at Blackbird.AI.

Prior, he was the national tech correspondent for CBS News, a contributing editor at ZDNet, a senior producer at CNET, the digital platform manager at ABC News Radio, and a reporter for various media companies.

He 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. Dan has interviewed entertainers Willie Nelson and Chuck D, Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa, Secretary of State Antony Blinkin, hacker Kevin Mitnick, entrepreneur Kathy Ireland, senior officials at Google, Microsoft, Meta, and more.

Dan has moderated panels and spoken at conferences, including the keynote address to the European Broadcasting Union’s 2023 cybersecurity seminar in Geneva, the Global Cybersecurity Summit in Kyiv, SXSW in Austin, the Talkers Talk Media event in New York City, and other events.

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.

Dan contributes to ZDNet and This Week in Tech.