Alexis Madrigal

{{Short description|American journalist}}

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| name = Alexis Madrigal

| birth_place = Mexico City, Mexico

| education = Harvard University (BA)

| children = 2

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Alexis Madrigal (born 1983/84) is an American journalist. He co-hosts the daily Forum program on California Public Radio for KQED in San Francisco.

In 2010, Madrigal began working for The Atlantic.{{cite web|author=Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke|url=http://observer.com/2014/07/alexis-madrigal-named-deputy-editor-of-the-atlantic-website/|title=Alexis Madrigal Named Deputy Editor of The Atlantic Website - New York Observer|publisher=The New York Observer|date=8 July 2014|accessdate=2014-08-16}} In 2014, he was promoted to deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com.{{Cite web |date=2014-07-08 |title=Alexis Madrigal Named Deputy Editor of TheAtlantic.com |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/press-releases/archive/2014/07/alexis-madrigal-named-deputy-editor/374094/ |access-date=2024-05-01 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}} He joined Fusion later in the year as part of a "big-name hiring spree" for the new media channel,{{cite news|last1=Roy|first1=Jessica|title=Jane Spencer on Fusion's Relaunch, Building a Diverse News Operation, and What It's Like to Be Post-Post Text|url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/02/jane-spencer-interview-fusion-relaunch.html|accessdate=10 October 2016|work=Daily Intelligencer|date=February 3, 2015}} "one of the hot-shot journalists on which Fusion is pinning its hopes."{{cite news|last1=Abbruzzese|first1=Jason|title=Fusion and its high-profile staff are looking to set off a reaction|url=http://mashable.com/2015/02/02/fusion-digital-launch/#NDRKlx6COkqP|accessdate=10 October 2016|work=Mashable|date=February 2, 2015}} 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.{{cite news|last1=Sohn|first1=Emily|title=How the COVID Tracking Project fills the public health data gap|url=https://www.cjr.org/the_profile/covid-tracking-project.php|accessdate=2020-04-10|work=Columbia Journalism Review|date=March 24, 2020}} 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".{{cite web|author=Adam Cohen|url=http://blog.thomsonreuters.com/index.php/a-new-and-promising-energy-future/|title=A New and Promising Energy Future - Thomson Reuters Blog|publisher=Thomson Reuters|date=29 June 2014|accessdate=2014-08-16}} In 2017, he hosted an 8-part audio documentary on containerization called Containers. He graduated from Harvard University in 2004.{{Cite web|url=http://fyi98642.com/alexis-madrigal-rhs-alum-featured-in-ny-times-article-for-exciting-new-career-change/|title=Fyi 98642}}

Madrigal is married and has two children.{{cite news |last=Madrigal |first=Alexis C. |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/11/the-worlds-only-normal-until-you-test-positive/620653/ |title=Getting Back to Normal Is Only Possible Until You Test Positive |work=The Atlantic |date=2021-11-09 |accessdate=2021-11-12 }}

In 2024, Madrigal served as a judge for that year's American Mosaic Journalism Prize.{{Cite web |date=2024-02-07 |title=Judges |url=https://www.hsfoundation.org/programs/initiatives-journalism/prize/judges/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=Heising-Simons Foundation}}