Alexis Madrigal | |
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Born |
Mexico City, Mexico |
Education | Harvard University ( BA) |
Children | 2 |
Alexis Madrigal (born 1983/84) is an American journalist. He co-hosts KQED's Forum on California Public Radio.
In 2010, Madrigal began working for The Atlantic. [1] In 2014, he was promoted to deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com.[ citation needed] He joined Fusion later in the year as part of a "big-name hiring spree" for the new media channel, [2] "one of the hot-shot journalists on which Fusion is pinning its hopes." [3] 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. [4] 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". [5] In 2017, he hosted an 8-part audio documentary on containerization called Containers. He graduated from Harvard University in 2004. [6]
Madrigal is married and has two children. [7]
In 2024, Madrigal served as a judge for that year's American Mosaic Journalism Prize. [8]