Bridget Bodnar

Senior Producer

SHORT BIO

Bridget is the director of podcasts at Marketplace. She's also the host and co-creator of “Million Bazillion,” Marketplace's award-winning podcast for kids about money.

Bridget has worked at Marketplace since 2011 when she started as an intern. Since then, she's worked across multiple shows and podcasts, including for several years on the flagship evening broadcast of “Marketplace.” She was the senior producer of “Million Bazillion” and “Make Me Smart.”

Bridget is originally from Michigan but now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughters. They have a lot of cats.

Latest Stories (236)

Is this man our next Treasury secretary?

Aug 31, 2016
Steven Mnuchin is a Wall Street financier and Donald Trump's national campaign finance manager.
Steve Mnuchin speaks onstage at City Harvest: An Event Of Practical Magic on April 24, 2014 in New York City. 

 
Andrew H. Walker/Getty Images for City Harvest

Delta Air Lines CEO talks power outages, TSA lines and 'being Delta'

Aug 30, 2016
Ed Bastian took over Delta's corner office earlier this year. He's already had his hands full.
Ed Bastian, CEO of Delta Airlines.
Delta Airlines

"Good ideas never die at Disney"

Aug 29, 2016
Disney almost shut down in the 1940s, but they were also the studio's most creative time.
Sylvia Holland's concept painting for the "Pastoral Symphony" sequence in Fantasia.  
They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney’s Musical Years: The 1940s by Didier Ghez

Frank Ocean and the business of really fancy music videos

Aug 25, 2016
Is the music industry's future all-visual-albums, all the time?
Frank Ocean performs onstage during the 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards at STAPLES Center on February 10, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
Christopher Polk/Getty Images for NARAS

The U.S. military is kinda like Walmart, here's how

Aug 24, 2016
The military got big and it's hard to scale back.
"The military", said Rosa Brooks, "has become the nation's one-stop shop."
Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Bevel keeps growing, from online to retail shelves

Aug 16, 2016
Tristan Walker of Bevel says "Silicon Valley is growing a hell of a lot more amenable to companies like ours."
The Bevel Razor.
Courtesy of Walker and Company

How hackable is your car?

Aug 4, 2016
Last year, two guys hacked a Jeep Cherokee. Here how things got better — or maybe not.

Why there's less of a wage gap for women with flexible hours

Aug 3, 2016
A breakdown of the gender wage gap with Sarah Kliff of Vox.

Goosebumps and tears on Hillary Clinton's big night

Delegates talk about their impressions of the Democratic National Convention's final night.
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton acknowledges the crowd at the end of the Democratic National Convention.
Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images

An evening of seersucker and 'malarkey'

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden spoke on day three of the Democratic National Convention.
U.S. President Barack Obama and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton wave to the crowd on the third day of the DNC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
Aaron P. Bernstein/Getty Images