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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)

The Banker's Almanac: A guide to interest rates

Sep 16, 2015
One comedian makes some predictions about the Fed's decision.
Albino heifer? It could mean lower interest rates.
Photo by Three Lions/Getty Images

Refugees bring in big business in Europe

The mass migration has created unlikely opportunities.
Syrian refugees and migrants walk along a highway on Tuesday on their way to the border between Turkey and Greece in the northwestern Turkish city of Edirne. 
BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images

U.S. mortgage giants under the microscope

Sep 14, 2015
What's the deal with our strange relationship with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
The headquarters of Freddie Mac in McLean, Virginia.
Win McNamee/Getty Images

How Detroit students experienced the city's bankruptcy

Sep 9, 2015
The NYT video series looks high schoolers' optimism despite their surroundings.
A video journalist from the New York Times followed Denby High School students in Detroit to see the city's bankruptcy through their eyes.
Andrew Jameson/Wikimedia Commons

What's the military doing in our food?

A new book investigates how the military influences the way we eat.
A meal made by the Department of Defense Combat Feeding Directorate at the Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center.
David Kamm/NSRDEC Photographer/flickr

Why we cried when Steve Jobs died

Sep 3, 2015
Alex Gibney tries to find the reason for the tears in his documentary.
Courtesy Magnolia Pictures

Flores-Roux is a nose ahead in the perfume business

Aug 27, 2015
Give a little citrus, lavender and stink to the lab, and you get atomized magic.
Kai Ryssdal with Rodrigo Flores-Roux at his perfume lab.
Bridget Bodnar

Felicia Day and the guild of geek

Aug 21, 2015
A million hats weren't enough for her, so the producer-performer wrote a memoir.
"I have signed on for the career of a million hats," Felicia Day says.
Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Samsung

Man eats way through NYC, one pizza slice at a time

Aug 11, 2015
'Slice Harvester' author celebrates the pie's 'utopia in your mouth.'
Urban Outfitters is getting into the pizza business.
Pnickell0/Wikimedia Commons

Rio de Janeiro adapts as it prepares for the 2016 Olympics

Rio de Janeiro has changed since it agreed to host the Olympics.
Aerial view of the Maracanã Complex, a Rio 2016 Olympic Games venue. 
Matthew Stockman/Getty Images