Patrick Kiernan (born November 20, 1968) is a Canadian-American television host, appearing as the morning news anchor of NY1 since 1997.

Kiernan began his news career in 1988 at CKRA-FM in Edmonton while a business student at the University of Alberta.

Kiernan moved to New York City three years later to work for Time Warner, where he soon became the morning anchor of NY1.

In 2008, Kiernan created Pat's Papers, a website curation of his favorite stories from newspapers across the United States.

[2] In January 2011, Kiernan joined TrivWorks as a "Special Host" available for select corporate team building events.

[3][4][5] In January 2014, Kiernan added an afternoon job to his long-running morning routine, joining WABC (AM) Radio to host a 5 pm weeknight news/talk show recapping the events of the day in and around New York City.

[12] They used to reside on the Upper West Side, but in April 2012 Kiernan purchased a $2 million townhouse in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.