Patrick Range McDonald

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Patrick Range McDonald is an American author and journalist.{{cite web |url=http://patrickrangemcdonald.com/ |title=Patrick Range McDonald |access-date=September 27, 2016}} As a staff writer at L.A. Weekly, he won the Los Angeles Press Club's "Journalist of the Year" award{{cite web |url=http://www.laweekly.com/informer/2011/06/27/patrick-range-mcdonald-named-best-print-journalist-of-the-year-by-la-press-club-la-weekly-takes-home-6-more-awards/ |title=Patrick Range McDonald Named Best Print Journalist of The Year By L.A. Press Club; LA Weekly Takes Home 6 More Awards |publisher=LA Weekly |author=Simone Wilson |work=LA Weekly |date=June 27, 2011 |access-date=January 12, 2015}} and the "Public Service" award from the Association of Alternative Newsmedia.{{cite web |url=http://www.altweeklies.com/aan/Awards?category=2184397/ |title=AltWeekly Awards |publisher=Association of Alternative Newsmedia |access-date=January 12, 2015}}

McDonald also co-wrote former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's memoir, The Mayor: How I Turned Around Los Angeles after Riots, an Earthquake, and the OJ Simpson Murder Trial. The book was a New York Times and Los Angeles Times best seller.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2014-10-19/hardcover-nonfiction/list.html |title=New York Times Best Sellers |website=The New York Times |date=October 19, 2014 |access-date=January 12, 2015}}{{cite web|title=Bestsellers|url=http://projects.latimes.com/bestsellers/titles/mayor/|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=20 June 2017|language=en}}

And he wrote a book about Los Angeles–based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care nonprofit that operates in 45 countries and serves more than 1.6 million patients. The book is titled Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World.{{cite book|last1=McDonald|first1=Patrick Range|title=Righteous Rebels: AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Crusade to Change the World|date=2016|publisher=Prospect Park Books, LLC|isbn=9781938849930|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FdL1jwEACAAJ|language=en}} In a review, The Lancet, the global health journal, noted: "McDonald has managed a deft balancing act with this book: on one hand providing a fascinating inside view of a billion-dollar non-profit organisation, while on the other hand providing a history of both the AIDS Healthcare Foundation and the AIDS crisis, full of human interest and compelling portraits of the major players in the organisation."{{Cite web|url=http://www.righteousrebelsbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Lancent-RR-review.pdf|title="Anyone Can Absolutely Change the World"|date=June 2017|website=The Lancet}}

McDonald was later the historical consultant for Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years,{{Cite web|url=http://righteousrebelsbook.com/world-premiere-of-keeping-the-promise-ahf-30-years-in-los-angeles/|title="World Premiere of 'Keeping the Promise: AHF 30 Years' in Los Angeles"|work=Righteous Rebels |date=October 22, 2017}} a documentary narrated by actress Meryl Streep.

He is currently the advocacy journalist for Housing Is A Human Right, the housing advocacy division of AIDS Healthcare Foundation and one of the leading housing justice organizations in the United States.{{Cite web |title=Housing Is A Human Right |url=https://www.housingisahumanright.org/}} His work there earned him the "Best Activism Journalism" award from the Los Angeles Press Club.{{Cite news|date=September 23, 2020|title=Fordham Graduate Earns Journalism Award for Covering LA's Housing Crisis|work=Fordham Magazine|url=https://news.fordham.edu/fordham-magazine/fordham-graduate-earns-journalism-award-for-covering-las-housing-crisis/}} In 2022, McDonald wrote a short book, Selling Off California: The Untold Story, about the powerful alliances and devastating policies that fuel the housing affordability and homelessness crises in California.{{Cite web |last=Staff |first=Housing Is A Human Right |date=February 15, 2022 |title=Housing Is A Human Right Proudly Releases 'Selling Off California: The Untold Story' |url=https://www.housingisahumanright.org/housing-is-a-human-right-proudly-releases-selling-off-california-the-untold-story/}} It was a finalist for a Los Angeles Press Club award. He was born in Newark, New Jersey.