Tom Pattinson Tom Pattinson is editor of Positive News and founder of Barley Magazine. He has spent his career writing about culture, travel and whisky, and has launched international media brands including Time Out in China and Vogue in Scandinavia. He is currently writing a book on what makes a city cool, and is mildly obsessive about new world whisky. He spends as much time as possible roaming the world’s weirder, more overlooked corners, ideally with an Oloroso cask-strength single-malt in his hip flask.