Marianna Spring

Marianna Spring (born 21 February 1996) is a British broadcast journalist. She is the BBC's first specialist disinformation and social media correspondent.

Marianna Spring
Born (1996-02-21) 21 February 1996
EducationPembroke College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist

Biography

Spring was born on 21 February 1996.[1] She has a sister. Spring reports an interest in journalism from age eight, which included watching BBC World News while on holiday.[2] She attended Sutton High School, London, and while there she was involved in a programme run by Newsquest for young journalists, winning an award for best news article of 2011 by a Year Eleven student.[3] She studied French and Russian at Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculating in 2014)[4] and wrote for and edited the student newspaper Cherwell.[5] Spring won the Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017.[6] She spent her year abroad in Yaroslavl, and Paris, contributing news articles to The Moscow Times, The Local, and Le Tarn Libre.[7][8] Spring undertook work experience at The Guardian and Private Eye.[5][9] After graduation, she applied for various journalism programmes including at the BBC but was not successful.[10] Senior news reporter for The Guardian Alexandra Topping suggested that Spring contact various BBC journalists that she admired. Emily Maitlis replied to Spring and gave her an opportunity to work on Newsnight.[11][12] By the end of 2018, Marianna had co-produced a video for Newsnight, on protesters from across the French political spectrum joining the Gilets jaunes.[13]

"The focus of my job is to humanise disinformation and explain its impact to viewers, listeners and readers."

Spring describing her role in March 2021[14]

In March 2020, she was appointed the BBC's first specialist disinformation and social media reporter which followed establishment of similar roles at American news organisations such as CNN and NBC.[15] In 2021 Spring started to work as a reporter for the current affairs documentary programme Panorama and was selected by Forbes as one of their Media and Marketing "30 Under 30" in 2021.[16][17]

She was promoted to correspondent in August 2022.[18] Spring was nominated as Young Talent of the Year at the Royal Television Society's Journalism Awards in 2023.[19] Her debut book Among the Trolls: Notes From the Disinformation Wars is due for publication by Atlantic Books in autumn 2023.[20]

Television
Year(s) Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2021–present Panorama Reporter Episode: "Vaccines: The Disinformation War"
Episode: "Online Abuse: Why Do You Hate Me?"
Episode: "A Social Media Murder: Olly's Story"
Episode: "Disaster Deniers: Hunting the Trolls"		 [16]
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[22]
[23]

Radio
Year(s) Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2020 How to Cure Viral Misinformation Presenter [24]
2021 The Anti-Vax Files Presenter [25]
2021 The Denial Files Presenter Podcast [26]
2022 Death by Conspiracy? Presenter Podcast [27]
2022 War on Truth Presenter Podcast [28]
2022 Americast Co-host Podcast [29]
2022 Disaster Trolls Presenter Podcast [30]

References
  1. @mariannaspring (21 February 2021). "25 today! And reported for Panorama for the first time this week – a very exciting first quarter of a century (pandemic permitting)" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 31 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022 – via Twitter.
  2. "Journalism Masterclass with Marianna Spring". Royal Television Society. 8 November 2021. Event occurs at 02:00. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022.
  3. Wood, Heloise (27 January 2014). "Young Reporter scheme helps schoolgirl win place at Oxford University". News Shopper. Archived from the original on 31 October 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  4. "Alumna Marianna Spring Features on Forbes '30 under 30' list". Pembroke College, Oxford. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  5. "Our amazing alumnae". Sutton High School. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  6. Brindley, Lynn. "Master's Notes". The Pembroke Record 2016–2017. Pembroke College, Oxford. p. 4.
  7. "Undergraduate Linguist Marianna Spring Becomes News Reporter for The Moscow Times". Pembroke College, Oxford. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  8. "Undergraduate Marianna Spring Awarded Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting". Pembroke College, Oxford. 23 February 2017.
  9. Hancock, Charlie (1 January 2022). "In Conversation with Marianna Spring". Cherwell.
  10. "Journalism Masterclass with Marianna Spring". Royal Television Society. 8 November 2021. Event occurs at 07:03. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022.
  11. "Journalism Masterclass with Marianna Spring". Royal Television Society. 8 November 2021. Event occurs at 07:43. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022.
  12. "Alexandra Topping". The Guardian.
  13. Clayton, James (8 December 2018). "Gilets jaunes: Are nationalists infiltrating the 'yellow vests'?". BBC News. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  14. Spring, Marianna (21 March 2021). "My crazy first year down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  15. Spring, Marianna (21 March 2021). "My crazy first year down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 8 December 2022.(subscription required)
  16. "Panorama: Vaccines: The Disinformation War". BBC. 20 February 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  17. "Marianna Spring". Forbes. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  18. @mariannaspring (9 August 2022). "Delighted I've been promoted from reporter & I'm now the BBC's first Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent!..." (Tweet). Archived from the original on 8 November 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022 – via Twitter.
  19. "RTS Television Journalism Awards 2023 in partnership with Wolftech and Dataminr". Royal Television Society. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  20. Wood, Heloise (13 July 2021). "Spring's disinformation debut goes to Atlantic in three-way auction". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  21. "Panorama: Online abuse: Why do you hate me". BBC. 20 October 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  22. "A social media murder: Olly's story". BBC News. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  23. "The UK terror survivors tracked down by 'disaster trolls'". BBC News. 31 October 2022.
  24. "How to Cure Viral Misinformation". BBC. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  25. Sawyer, Miranda (28 March 2021). "Radio roadshow: the Beeb's big move away from London". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  26. "The Denial Files". BBC. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  27. "Death by Conspiracy?". BBC Sounds. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  28. "War on Truth". BBC. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  29. "BBC's Justin Webb, Sarah Smith and Marianna Spring join Americast". BBC. 30 August 2022. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  30. "Disaster Trolls". BBC Sounds. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
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