Alexis Madrigal (born 1982) is an American journalist. He co-hosts the daily Forum program on California Public Radio for KQED in San Francisco.

Alexis Madrigal
Born
Mexico City, Mexico
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Children2

In 2010, Madrigal began working for The Atlantic.[1] In 2014, he was promoted to deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com.[2] He joined Fusion later in the year as part of a "big-name hiring spree" for the new media channel,[3] "one of the hot-shot journalists on which Fusion is pinning its hopes."[4] In March 2020, he started the COVID Tracking Project, a collaborative effort to track the spread of COVID-19 within the US, with Robinson Meyer and a team of volunteers.[5] He has also written for Wired. In 2014, he spoke at the Aspen Ideas Festival alongside Tony Fadell as a member of a panel discussing "A New and Promising Energy Future".[6] In 2017, he hosted an 8-part audio documentary on containerization called Containers. He graduated from Harvard University in 2004.[7]

Madrigal is married and has two children.[8]

In 2024, Madrigal served as a judge for that year's American Mosaic Journalism Prize.[9]

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  1. Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke (8 July 2014). "Alexis Madrigal Named Deputy Editor of The Atlantic Website - New York Observer". The New York Observer. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
  2. "Alexis Madrigal Named Deputy Editor of TheAtlantic.com". The Atlantic. 2014-07-08. Retrieved 2024-05-01.
  3. Roy, Jessica (February 3, 2015). "Jane Spencer on Fusion's Relaunch, Building a Diverse News Operation, and What It's Like to Be Post-Post Text". Daily Intelligencer. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  4. Abbruzzese, Jason (February 2, 2015). "Fusion and its high-profile staff are looking to set off a reaction". Mashable. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  5. Sohn, Emily (March 24, 2020). "How the COVID Tracking Project fills the public health data gap". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  6. Adam Cohen (29 June 2014). "A New and Promising Energy Future - Thomson Reuters Blog". Thomson Reuters. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
  7. "Fyi 98642".
  8. Madrigal, Alexis C. (2021-11-09). "Getting Back to Normal Is Only Possible Until You Test Positive". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  9. "Judges". Heising-Simons Foundation. 2024-02-07. Archived from the original on 2024-02-07. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
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