Patrice Taddonio’s Biography
Patrice Taddonio is a senior digital writer at FRONTLINE, the acclaimed investigative journalism outlet. Her stories for FRONTLINE's website have been cited in a Congressional report, an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, in multiple books, and by organizations including the Economic Policy Institute, the U.S. Naval Institute and the Center on Immigration and Child Welfare. She's a member of the team that won FRONTLINE’s 2021 Webby Award in the Websites & Mobile Sites: News & Politics category.
Patrice writes news stories for FRONTLINE's website that add context to breaking developments by drawing on the series' documentaries in timely, compelling ways. She also interprets key moments from upcoming documentaries as digital stories, breaking them out in advance of broadcast.
Through her writing, Patrice helps powerful investigative storytelling get seen, heard and read. She serves as FRONTLINE's lead newsletter editor and writer and helps to edit and oversee FRONTLINE's social media content. In 2015, a piece she wrote on the CIA’s destruction of interrogation tapes became what’s believed to be the first FRONTLINE story to reach #1 on Reddit’s homepage.
Patrice is a graduate of Tufts University, where she served as editor-in-chief of Tufts' independent, student-run newspaper, The Tufts Daily; interned with the Associated Press; and wrote magazine-style features as a member of the school's then-fledgling web team. She graduated summa cum laude and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Her senior project, an exploration of the Judith Miller saga and the uses and perils of anonymous sourcing in journalism, won 2006’s Best Project in Print Journalism Award from Tufts’ Communications & Media Studies Department. She also attended Columbia Journalism School's Publishing Course.
Before joining FRONTLINE in 2013, Patrice spent four years as the first-ever communications staffer at The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, a leadership development and community service nonprofit focused on eliminating health disparities. She served as the organization's website editor, launched and wrote its blog, ran its social media platforms, and developed trainings for its fellows on how to communicate effectively about complex topics. Patrice also spent several years working in book publishing at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where she specialized in promoting narrative nonfiction.