Madrigal returns to The Atlantic to cover tech and business

Alexis Madrigal is rejoining the staff of The Atlantic, where he’ll write about technology, science, business, and trade.

Madrigal was the technology editor and later deputy editor of TheAtlantic.com from 2010-2014. He has since been with Fusion, as the venture’s technology editor, editor in chief, and most recently editor at large.

“Alexis is a super-creative journalist, an uncommonly incisive thinker about the problems and prospects of technological development for the human future, and a great colleague,” says J.J. Gould, the editor of TheAtlantic.com. “It’s a tremendous thing to have him back.”

Madrigal will primarily cover technology from Silicon Valley, reporting to The Atlantic’s Science, Technology, and Health editor Ross Andersen.

In his past writing for The Atlantic, Madrigal covered topics ranging from robotics to big data to digital privacy and fatherhood. He is currently working on a book about trade, technology and the city of Oakland, where he lives, and recently completed an eight-episode podcast Containers, focusing on how global trade works and the ascendance of automation.

Madrigal curates the 5it newsletter, and is the author of “Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology.”

He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society and an affiliate with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society.