Andy Meek

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Location
Memphis, TN
School
University of Memphis
Expertise
streaming, Netflix, TV shows
  • Andy's work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Forbes, and The Financial Times, and he's written for BGR since 2015.
  • Over the years, he's interviewed major figures in pop culture including Marvel's Stan Lee, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Mark Hamill, and Matthew McConaughey, among others.
  • His favorite TV shows, both to watch and to write about, include "Andor," "Severance," and "The Bear."

Experience

Andy has over two decades of experience covering the media landscape, with a particular focus on streaming, entertainment, and digital storytelling. At BGR, he tracks the platforms, personalities, and behind-the-scenes shifts that are shaping what we watch and how we watch it. Whether it's Netflix's latest global bet or HBO's next big swing, he's especially interested in how streaming is driving culture, media power, and audience behavior in real time.

Education

Andy graduated from the University of Memphis with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

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Stories By Andy Meek

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    News
    News By Andy Meek

    To stay competitive, Walmart and Target turn to startups for help

    Ten startup teams are holed up in Minneapolis through next month to use a new retail-focused accelerator there to launch everything from voice-based search technology for retailers to interactive games that help kids learn STEM concepts. Their workspace is a typical startup bullpen -- an open zone filled with things like boxes of food, Apple products, whiteboards with rows of Post-its and signs hanging from the ceiling that mark each startup's turf.

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    Space By Andy Meek

    An interview with one of NASA's Curiosity Rover engineers

    With his Elvis haircut, his fondness for cowboy boots and the way he'll launch into soliloquies about big ideas like how to bend humanity toward collective self-improvement, Adam Steltzner might come off at first as some kind of hipster philosopher. That's one of the things that makes him such a memorable ambassador for NASA, his employer. Steltzner is in fact an engineer with an improbable combination of geek cred and California cool who this October will have spent 25 years working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He looks like a rock star -- plays bass guitar, in fact -- and can forcefully insist on humanity's imperative to explore the stars and to press against the limits of the known universe with little prompting.

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