Lauded: In its first full year on the air, Patt's eponymous KPCC radio program, "Patt Morrison,'' has won the coveted Golden Mike award for best public affairs program on radio. The Radio & Television News Association of Southern California made the award for one of the program's signature features, Comedy Congress. Comedy Congress assembles several politically astute humorists and asks them to riff, intelligently, on the news of the week using audio clips from politicians and public figures.

“Patt Morrison,” airs live from 1 until 3 p.m. on 89.3 KPCC. Visit the program web site.

Online: Patt is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post. You can read her columns here.

In Hollywood: Patt has now delivered three speeches at three ceremonies for new stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: for her friend and fellow book club member, actor Michael York ... for the Los Angeles Times, which was honored with a special star ... and for her former Times colleague Charles Champlin, the paper's longtime film critic, who received his star on the Walk of Fame in July 2007.

Patt's newest best-seller is also her first foray into fiction. It's anthologized in “Los Angeles Noir.̵ The collection, published by Akashic Press and edited by Denise Hamilton, has received rave reviews and Patt's story “Morocco Junction 90210,” about a death in Beverly Hills, has been singled out for particular praise.

International notes: Patt is familiar to Britain's morning television views for her appearances on the “BBC Breakfast” on topics like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Governorship and the American “invasion” by David and Victoria Beckham.

Patt's 'Day with Merv,' her tour of Beverly Hills history with showman and entrepreneur Merv Griffin, was re-aired recently on KCET-TV after Griffin's passing at age 82.

My California: Patt has contributed an essay, “Flirting with Urbanismo,” to My California: Journeys by Great Writers, a collection of narrative travel stories by 27 writers from around the state. Proceeds from this special anthology, a Los Angeles Times bestseller, benefit the California Arts Council and school writing programs. Read more at mycaliforniaproject.org. Buy the book here.

LA Stories: Patt has written the foreword to Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles by D.J. Waldie (Angel City Press). “The suburb is America's lifeline and its punchline, and Waldie is its bard.” She also contributed the forward to Larry Mantle's This Is AirTalk: 20 Years of Conversation on 89.3 KPCC (April 2005), a collection of some of the best interviews during the history of his program.

Patt Morrison is a writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Times, where her work has spanned national political profiles and campaign reporting, along with coverage of the O.J. Simpson case, the Los Angeles riots, the Persian Gulf War, the Olympics, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Space Shuttle, the Super Bowl and Britain’s royal family, including the death of the Princess of Wales. She is a member of two Los Angeles Times’ reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for coverage of the 1992 riots, and the city’s 1994 earthquake.

Her book, Rio L.A., Tales from the Los Angeles River, a lively account of the City of Angels and its part-time river, was published in July 2001 by Angel City Press. The book spent six weeks on the best–seller list, and was ranked as one of the year’s best in the Los Angeles Times’ Book Review.

Patt has won five Emmys and four Golden Mike awards as founding host and commentator on Life & Times Tonight, the nightly news and current affairs program on KCET. With Patt and colleagues Hugh Hewitt and Kerman Maddox as hosts, the program has been widely honored for its substantive handling of important regional and statewide issues.

Her one-on-one television interview subjects include author Salman Rushdie; Nobel laureates Francis Crick and Henry Kissinger; former President Jimmy Carter; the Archbishop of Canterbury; architect Frank Gehry; scientific theorists Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Sagan and Richard Dawkins; playwrights Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard, Wallace Shawn and Athol Fugard; writers Ray Bradbury, Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, P.D. James, Studs Terkel, Laura Esquivel, E.L. Doctorow, Alice Walker, John Gregory Dunne, Walter Mosley and Neil Simon; writer‘photographer‘cinematographer Gordon Parks; Vietnam War figure Robert McNamara; primate pioneer Jane Goodall; oceanographer Sylvia Earle; opera star Marilyn Horne; Oscar‘nominated writer‘directors Kenneth Branagh, Ang Lee, Atom Egoyan, and Mike Leigh; and such Oscar‘caliber performers as Jodie Foster, Lauren Bacall, Jack Lemmon, Derek Jacobi, Ralph Fiennes and Brenda Blethyn.

Since 1994, her commentaries have been heard on National Public Radio‘s Morning Edition. She also contributes commentaries to KQED radio’s California Report, and is a frequent guest host on KPCC radio’s Air Talk. Patt also provides occasional observations on California politics and lifestyles for the BBC and other London radio programs. She has done the same for CNN, CNBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Company, Good Morning America, and ABC News with Peter Jennings.

She served for eight years as adjunct professor at the University of Southern California’s School of Journalism, and in 1989–1990 was director of the school’s London program.

In 2000, Morrison received the Joseph M. Quinn award from the Los Angeles Press Club for lifetime achievement — the first time in a quarter–century that a woman has received the award.

Her 2001 column about President George Bush’s rollback of reproductive rights policies generated an estimated $1 million in contributions to pro–choice organizations, for which Ms. Magazine designated her one of its “Women Who Made a Difference” in the magazine’s Women of the Year issue.

Patt wrote about California for the Sunday Correspondent of London; her work also has appeared in magazines such as New York, More, British Vogue, Family Circle, Elle, Good Housekeeping, Parents and Lear's. She also wrote, with Times researcher/writer Cecilia Rasmussen, Angels Walk, a series of historical markers and guide books throughout Los Angeles.

Her writing has been accorded honors from the Associated Press Newspaper Editors' Association, the Los Angeles Press Club, and the Best of the West, among others, as well as the Aviation/Space Writers Association, and the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. She is the outgoing president of the Los Angeles Press Club.

She appeared on film in a cameo as a television news interviewer in Philippe Mora's feature film Snide and Prejudice, starring Angus MacFayden and Rene Auberjonois. It premiered to laudatory reviews at the Cannes Film Festival, and was named by LA Weekly senior critic F.X. Feeney as one of the ten best films of 2001.

In 1999, she served as a moderator for Act Two of the Mark Taper Forum's production of playwright Anna Deavere Smith's political play House Arrest. In the same year, she was moderator at the UCLA conference on the 30th anniversary of the Internet.

Morrison was named 1996 “Woman of the Year” by the League of Women Voters of Beverly Hills. The ACLU honored her in 1994 with its “Freedom of Information Award.” And the joint USC–New York University project “Women, Men and Media” presented her with its annual “Women of Courage” award in 1995. The Skeptic Society honored her with its 1997 Edward R. Murrow Award for her writing and reporting on science in society.

The Los Angeles chapter of Women in Communications named her the winner of its 1996 “Leading Change” award, and the YWCA of Greater Los Angeles named her one of its “Incredible Women Making History” in 1997.

She is a sought–after speaker for a variety of literary and political organizations, and has been a regular speaker at the governor’s Annual Conference on Women.

She is a cum laude graduate of Occidental College, which named her alumnus of the year in 1995. She was elected in 1998 to its Board of Trustees.