Career
In addition to her anchoring duties, Pat has traveled extensively for KCAL-TV 9, and its sister station KCBS-TV, covering stories from the Papal Conclave in Rome, the first all-race elections in South Africa, the AIDS epidemic in East Africa and Russia and the civil war in El Salvador. During the O.J. Simpson trial, Pat was the first journalist to interview dismissed juror Jeanette Harris. The report was carried on television stations throughout the country and was seen worldwide.
She has won 19 local Emmy awards, a national Emmy and received the Joseph M. Quinn Lifetime Achievement Award from the L.A. Press Club in 2004. Named "Best News Anchor" by the Associated Press. In 2008, Pat received the Genii award from the Los Angeles chapter of American Women in Radio and Television and has been recognized by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Pat worked in Chicago at WGN Superstation before coming to Los Angeles. Her investigative reports on faulty pap smear tests, which lead to thousands of deaths among women, resulted in legislation regulating cytology labs in Illinois and the closure of one in Southern California. She was also awarded the Peter Lisagor award from the Society of Professional Journalists. While working for WGN, she also broke a national story from the Democratic National Convention in Atlanta in 1988, revealing a change in leadership in the Democratic National Committee.
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