| Alexis Madrigal | |
| Birth Place: | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Education: | Harvard University (BA) |
| Children: | 2 |
Alexis Madrigal (born 1983/84) is an American journalist. He co-hosts Forum on California Public Radio for KQED.
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]