Alexis Madrigal

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Alexis Madrigal
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Education Harvard University (BA)
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Alexis Madrigal (born 1983/84) is an American journalist. He co-hosts KQED's Forum on California Public Radio.

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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]

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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. 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.
  3. Abbruzzese, Jason (February 2, 2015). "Fusion and its high-profile staff are looking to set off a reaction". Mashable. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
  4. Sohn, Emily (March 24, 2020). "How the COVID Tracking Project fills the public health data gap". Columbia Journalism Review . Retrieved 2020-04-10.
  5. Adam Cohen (29 June 2014). "A New and Promising Energy Future - Thomson Reuters Blog". Thomson Reuters . Retrieved 2014-08-16.
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  7. Madrigal, Alexis C. (2021-11-09). "Getting Back to Normal Is Only Possible Until You Test Positive". The Atlantic . Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  8. "Judges". Heising-Simons Foundation. 2024-02-07. Retrieved 2024-02-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)