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Patrick Range McDonald
Author. Journalist. Activist.
ABOUT
Patrick Range McDonald is a best-selling author, award-winning journalist, and activist. He has battled and exposed billionaires, corporations, and politicians for decades.
McDonald's investigative reporting has earned him numerous honors, including the “Journalist of the Year” and "Best News Feature" awards from the Los Angeles Press Club and the national “Public Service” award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. He also co-wrote the best-selling memoir of former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riodan and wrote an acclaimed book about AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world's largest HIV/AIDS nonprofit.
He is currently the advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, one of the leading housing justice organizations in the United States. For his work, McDonald received the "Best Activism Journalism" award from the Los Angeles Press Club.
He also founded Volume Six, a media project that aims to improve the world through journalism and the arts. That work has started with the Substack publications Letters From Over Here and MacDomhnall's.
Through his longtime work in journalism and activism, and through his extensive traveling around the world, McDonald holds a unique understanding of life, power, and how the world operates. It informs all his writing.
BOOKS
McDonald is the author of Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World and co-writer of Richard J. Riordan's memoir The Mayor: How I Turned Around Los Angeles After Riots, an Earthquake and the O.J. Simpson Murder Trial. The memoir was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times bestseller.
