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Barry Bridges

  • Expert in personal loans, credit cards, and insurance
  • Two-time award-winning journalist (news features and columns)

Bio and experience

Barry Bridges has been writing and editing content aimed at helping people make good financial decisions since 2017. His areas of expertise include personal loans, credit cards, and insurance. His work has appeared on websites including Bankrate, The Simple Dollar, and NASDAQ.com. 

In his first career as a newspaper reporter and editor, he was a two-time winner in the North Carolina Press Association Journalism Contest. Outside work, his interests include baseball (real and fantasy), history, politics, and mentoring his young tuxedo cat Marvin.

Education

Barry has a Bachelors Degree in Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.