Marianna Spring
Marianna Spring | |
|---|---|
| Education | Pembroke College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Marianna Spring is a British journalist, who is employed as a specialist disinformation reporter by the BBC.
Biography
Spring attended Sutton High School, London, where she became involved in a programme run by Newsquest for young journalists, and won an award for the best news article by a Year Eleven student.[1] She was a ball girl at The Championships, Wimbledon in 2010, and presented a posy to Queen Elizabeth II.[2][3] Spring was accepted to Pembroke College, Oxford to study French and Russian, and wrote for Cherwell, the University of Oxford student newspaper. During a year abroad in Yaroslavl as part of her degree, Spring contributed news articles to the The Moscow Times.[4] She also edited Cherwell,[5] and won The Ronnie Payne Prize Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017.[6] Spring has also written for The Guardian and Private Eye.[5]
Spring is the specialist disinformation and social media reporter for the BBC.[7] In 2021 she was the reporter for Vaccines: The Disinformation War, for Panorama.[8] Writing for The Sunday Times, Spring described her BBC 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."[9] She was selected by forbes.com as one of their Media and Marketing "30 Under 30" in 2021.[10]
Credits
Television
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Vaccines: The Disinformation War (Panorama) | reporter | BBC Two | [8] |
Radio
| Year | Film | Role | Notes | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | How to Cure Viral Misinformation | presenter | BBC Radio 4 | [11] |
| 2021 | BBC Trending: The Anti-Vax Files | reporter | BBC World Service | [12] |
References
- ^ Wood, Heloise (27 January 2014). "Young Reporter scheme helps schoolgirl win place at Oxford University". News Shopper. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ Fox, Claire (30 June 2010). "Sutton school girl meets the Queen". Your Local Guardian. London – via NewsBank.
- ^ "Andy Murray bows to the Queen at Wimbledon". London Evening Standard. 24 June 2010. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ "Undergraduate Linguist Marianna Spring Becomes News Reporter for The Moscow Times". Pemroke College, Oxford. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Our amazing alumnae". Sutton High School. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ Brindley, Lynn. "Master's Notes". The Pembroke Record 2016–2017. Pembroke College, Oxford. p. 4.
- ^ Spring, Marianna (1 November 2020). "How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories". Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ a b "Panorama: Vaccines: The Disinformation War". BBC. 20 February 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ Spring, Marianna (21 March 2021). "My crazy first year down the fake news rabbit hole – As lockdown kicked in, Marianna Spring started her job as the BBC's new disinformation reporter. The hoaxers and true believers have kept her busy". The Sunday Times. p. 29.
- ^ "Marianna Spring". Forbes. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ "How to Cure Viral Misinformation". BBC. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- ^ Sawyer, Miranda (28 March 2021). "Radio roadshow: the Beeb's big move away from London". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 April 2021.