Alexis Madrigal

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. In 2014, he was promoted to deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com. He joined Fusion later in the year as part of a "big-name hiring spree" for the new media channel, "one of the hot-shot journalists on which Fusion is pinning its hopes." 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. 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". In 2017, he hosted an 8-part audio documentary on containerization called Containers. He graduated from Harvard University in 2004.

Madrigal is married and has two children.

In 2024, Madrigal served as a judge for that year's American Mosaic Journalism Prize.