Adam Swiderski
School
Georgetown University
Expertise
Consumer Tech, Popular Science, Entertainment Technology
- Adam has been working in digital media since the late '90s and was building his own PCs back when you needed to be handy with a soldering iron to do it.
- Adam conceived and co-produced the TechCrunch podcast "Electric Generation," as well as producing and hosting the "Who Won the Week" and "The Churn: A Podcast About the Expanse" podcasts.
- Adam plays six musical instruments, is obsessed with the finer points of home audio recording, and will talk your ear off about which digital audio workstation is right for you if you get him started on it.
Experience
Adam Swiderski has worked in digital media since before blogs were even a thing. He cut his teeth as a video game writer for sites like Gamepen and The Adrenaline Vault in the late '90s before signing on as an Editor at UGO Networks, where he remained until well after blogs were a thing. From there, he signed on at SYFY and became Editor-in-Chief of SYFY WIRE, spearheading coverage of events like San Diego Comic-Con, producing podcasts and video, and writing and editing scads of features on movies, TV, comics, video games, and more. Most recently, he served as Editor-in-Chief of CBR.com. He has also written for Yahoo Life, TechCrunch, Engadget, October, and a bunch of other web sites that no longer exist.
Education
Adam has a Bachelor of Science in the Foreign Service degree from the Georgetown University Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, where he learned a lot about both geopolitics and how to write about things.
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Stories By Adam Swiderski
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At a 2013 screening of Despicable Me 2 sponsored by Variety, directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud revealed the secret design origins of these lovable yellow munchkins the Minions, and how everything that made them so popular almost didn't happen.
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's bad guys are as flamboyant and fantastic as its heroes.
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The end of Outer Banks' first season offers a great set up for a second season, but not without first unraveling events that change the lives of just about everyone involved. Hoist your anchors, and let's set sail into the twisty tide to see how it all shakes out.
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In a new interview with The Daily Beast, actor Hugh Jackman has opened up a bit about why he left Wolverine's adamantium skeleton behind — and what might have convinced him to stay.
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Netflix's Code 8 arrived and scratched that particular itch for cinema about people with powers they don't quite understand navigating a society that hates and fears them. So, what kind of launching pad does the film provide? Let's take a look at what the ending of Code 8 really means.
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When it was reported in February 2020 that Sam Raimi was in talks to direct Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, a wave of excitement rippled through the Marvel fandom. That wave may become a tsunami, as Raimi appears to have offhandedly confirmed that he's got the job.
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It's been over 30 years since Crockett and Tubbs last donned their pastels and executed justice on Miami Vice. Where has the cast of the 1980s megahit gone in the years following the show's finale? A whole lot of places, as it turns out. Here's what the cast of Miami Vice are up to today.
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While many of the faces in Netflix's Love Wedding Repeat will look familiar, especially if you're acquainted with British television, there's one that'll particularly jump out if you're a movie fan: Freida Pinto, who plays Amanda. Here's where you've seen her before.
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Secret Service agent Mike Banning has faced a lot over the course of the Fallen films. In the third movie, Angel Has Fallen, he's had to deal with the most heinous of action movie tropes: betrayal by an old friend, Army Ranger Wade Jennings. Here's why the actor who plays Wade looks so familiar.
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Netflix's hit Spanish-language crime series Money Heist is full of colorful personalities, but the character we've most come to associate with the show due to her role as both one of its protagonists and its narrator is Silene Oliveira, better known as Tokio. Here's where you've seen her before.
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Hype around the fourth Thor movie has been high since it was first announced back in July 2019, but now, there's a new rumor circulating that makes Thor: Love and Thunder all the more intriguing.
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From bit parts to buddy comedies, from police activity to political shenanigans, Chris Farley brought the same hilarious intensity and sincerity to whatever cinematic character he embodied -- but some of his films were definitely better than others.
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There's one person who's not entirely thrilled with the way things shook out in the final season of "Modern Family": Sarah Hyland, who plays Haley Dunphy.
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The ‘90s was a golden age for animation and villainy. And when you mix the two, you get an amazing rogues’ gallery of bad guys, both in movies and on TV. So here are the best of the worst when it comes to '90s animated villains. They're bad, and they're drawn that way.
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If you're a Netflix viewer who's not cowed by what Parasite director Bong Joon-ho called "the one-inch-tall barrier" of subtitles, then you're likely clued in to La Casa de Papel, or Money Heist. Part 4 recently dropped on Netflix; here's what the ending means.
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We're taking a look back at the ending of World War Z — and how it went from prized source material to hailed script to problem production to box office hit.