He co-hosts Forum on California Public Radio for KQED.
[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.
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.
[8] In 2024, Madrigal served as a judge for that year's American Mosaic Journalism Prize.