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Marianna Spring
Born (1996-02-21) 21 February 1996 (age 28)
EducationPembroke College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist

Marianna Spring (born 21 February 1996) is a British broadcast journalist. Spring was appointed in March 2020 as the BBC's first specialist disinformation and social media reporter. She was promoted to correspondent in August 2022.[1]

Biography

Spring was born on 21 February 1996.[2] She reports an early interest in journalism from the age of eight which included watching BBC World News on holiday.[3] Spring attended Sutton High School, an independent school in London. While there she became involved in a programme run by Newsquest for young journalists, and won an award for the best news article of 2011 by a Year Eleven student.[4] She studied French and Russian at Pembroke College, Oxford (matriculating in 2014)[5] and wrote for and later became the editor of the student newspaper Cherwell.[6] Spring won the Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017.[7] She spent her year abroad in Yaroslavl, Russia and Paris, France and contributed news articles to The Moscow Times, The Local, and Le Tarn Libre.[8][9] During university, Spring undertook work experience at The Guardian and Private Eye.[6][10] After graduation, she applied for various journalism programmes including for the BBC but was not successful.[11] Senior news reporter for The Guardian Alexandra Topping suggested to Spring to directly contact various BBC journalists that she admired. Emily Maitlis replied to Spring and gave her an opportunity to work on Newsnight.[12][13]

"...when people don't know who and what to believe, it can pose serious risks."

Analysis by Marianna Spring, Disinformation and social media correspondent)[14]

In March 2020, she was appointed as the BBC's first ever specialist disinformation and social media reporter. Writing for The Sunday Times, Spring described the role as "to humanise disinformation and explain its impact to viewers, listeners and readers. As soon as my reports appeared on TV, radio and online, I became, in effect, the BBC's first online conspiracy agony aunt."[15][16] In 2021 she started to work as a reporter for current affairs documentary programme Panorama and was selected by Forbes as one of their Media and Marketing "30 Under 30" in 2021.[17][18]

Her debut book Among the Trolls: Notes From the Disinformation Wars is due for publication from Atlantic Books in autumn 2023.[19]

Credits

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" 		[17]
[20]
[21]
[22]

Radio

Year(s) Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2020 How to Cure Viral Misinformation Presenter [23]
2021 The Anti-Vax Files Presenter [24]
2021 The Denial Files Presenter Podcast [25]
2022 Death by Conspiracy? Presenter Podcast [26]
2022 War on Truth Presenter Podcast [27]
2022 Disaster Trolls Presenter Podcast [28]

References

  1. ^ @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.
  2. ^ @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.
  3. ^ "Journalism Masterclass with Marianna Spring". Royal Television Society. 8 November 2021. Event occurs at 02:00. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ "Alumna Marianna Spring Features on Forbes '30 under 30' list". Pembroke College, Oxford. 20 April 2021. Retrieved 5 November 2022.
  6. ^ a b "Our amazing alumnae". Sutton High School. Archived from the original on 22 May 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  7. ^ Brindley, Lynn. "Master's Notes". The Pembroke Record 2016–2017. Pembroke College, Oxford. p. 4.
  8. ^ "Undergraduate Linguist Marianna Spring Becomes News Reporter for The Moscow Times". Pembroke College, Oxford. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  9. ^ "Undergraduate Marianna Spring Awarded Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting". Pembroke College, Oxford. 23 February 2017.
  10. ^ Hancock, Charlie (1 January 2022). "In Conversation with Marianna Spring". Cherwell.
  11. ^ "Journalism Masterclass with Marianna Spring". Royal Television Society. 8 November 2021. Event occurs at 07:03. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022.
  12. ^ "Journalism Masterclass with Marianna Spring". Royal Television Society. 8 November 2021. Event occurs at 07:43. Archived from the original on 5 November 2022.
  13. ^ "Alexandra Topping". The Guardian.
  14. ^ Sardarizadeh, Shayan (12 November 2022). "Twitter chaos after wave of blue tick impersonations". BBC News. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
  15. ^ Spring, Marianna (21 March 2021). "My crazy first year down the fake news rabbit hole". The Sunday Times. p. 29. Retrieved 24 April 2021. (subscription required)
  16. ^ Spring, Marianna (1 November 2020). "How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories". BBC News. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  17. ^ a b "Panorama: Vaccines: The Disinformation War". BBC. 20 February 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  18. ^ "Marianna Spring". Forbes. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  19. ^ Wood, Heloise (13 July 2021). "Spring's disinformation debut goes to Atlantic in three-way auction". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  20. ^ "Panorama: Online abuse: Why do you hate me". BBC. 20 October 2021. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  21. ^ "A social media murder: Olly's story". BBC News. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  22. ^ "The UK terror survivors tracked down by 'disaster trolls'". BBC News. 31 October 2022.
  23. ^ "How to Cure Viral Misinformation". BBC. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  24. ^ Sawyer, Miranda (28 March 2021). "Radio roadshow: the Beeb's big move away from London". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  25. ^ "The Denial Files". BBC. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  26. ^ "Death by Conspiracy?". BBC Sounds. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  27. ^ "War on Truth". BBC. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  28. ^ "Disaster Trolls". BBC Sounds. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
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