Alexis Madrigal

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Alexis Madrigal
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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. [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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