Courtney Bergsieker

Associate Producer

SHORT BIO

Courtney is an associate podcast producer for Marketplace. She’s based in New York.

Before coming to Marketplace, Courtney was a fellow at WFUV, the public radio station on Fordham University’s Bronx campus (of which she is an alumna). At WFUV, she helped launch the station’s first daily news podcast.

Courtney spends her free time attending any live music events she can find and collecting souvenir fridge magnets from the places she travels to.

Episodes by Courtney (1)

How We Survive | Season 4 | Episode 6

Betting on Conservation

Nov 22, 2023

Latest Stories (4)

What author Andy Weir got wrong about this particular word

The author of the blockbuster novel "The Martian" shares a story that shows he wasn't always the wordsmith we know him to be.
Alex Wong/Getty Images

"Shrill" writer Lindy West was wrong about Canada geese

Jul 7, 2023
Seattle writer and comedian Lindy West shares one animal fact that she had all wrong.
Lindy West talks with Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams during a live taping of Marketplace's "Make Me Smart" podcast in Seattle.
Juan Pablo Chiquiza, KUOW

Alyssa Gaines was wrong about planning for the future

Jul 26, 2022
National Youth Poet Laureate Alyssa Gaines reflects on how you don't always need a plan.
Alyssa Gaines, 2022 National Youth Poet Laureate speaks onstage during The Earthshot Prize Innovation Summit in Partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies on September 21, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images for Bloomberg Philanthropies)

Dessa was wrong about what musical collaboration looks like

Feb 9, 2021
Dessa shares why she never viewed teamwork as one of her strengths and why that changed.
“I think we are gonna have this big boom of art in the next few months as people are hunkering down over their keyboards,” Dessa says.
Sara Fish