Marianna Spring

Marianna Spring is a British broadcast journalist. Spring was appointed in March 2020 as the BBC's first specialist disinformation and social media reporter.[1][2]

Marianna Spring
EducationPembroke College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist

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 of 2011 by a Year Eleven student.[3] Spring was accepted by 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 Moscow Times.[4] She also edited Cherwell,[5] and won The Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017.[6] Spring has also written for The Guardian and Private Eye.[5]

Spring is the first ever specialist disinformation and social media reporter for the BBC appointed to the new role in March 2020.[1][2] In 2021 she was the reporter for Vaccines: The Disinformation War, for Panorama.[7] 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."[1] She was selected by Forbes as one of their Media and Marketing "30 Under 30" in 2021.[8]

Among the Trolls: Notes From the Disinformation Wars is due for publication from Atlantic Books in autumn 2023.[9]

Credits

Television
YearFilmRoleNotesRef.
2021"Vaccines: The Disinformation War" (Panorama)reporterBBC One[7]

Radio
YearFilmRoleNotesRef.
2020How to Cure Viral MisinformationpresenterBBC Radio 4[10]
2021BBC Trending: The Anti-Vax FilesreporterBBC World Service[11]
2022War on TruthpresenterBBC Radio 4[12]

References
  1. 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)
  2. Spring, Marianna (1 November 2020). "How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories". BBC News. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  3. Wood, Heloise (27 January 2014). "Young Reporter scheme helps schoolgirl win place at Oxford University". News Shopper. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  4. "Undergraduate Linguist Marianna Spring Becomes News Reporter for The Moscow Times". Pemroke College, Oxford. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  5. "Our amazing alumnae". Sutton High School. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  6. Brindley, Lynn. "Master's Notes". The Pembroke Record 2016–2017. Pembroke College, Oxford. p. 4.
  7. "Panorama: Vaccines: The Disinformation War". BBC. 20 February 2021. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  8. "Marianna Spring". Forbes. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  9. Wood, Heloise (13 July 2021). "Spring's disinformation debut goes to Atlantic in three-way auction". The Bookseller. Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  10. "How to Cure Viral Misinformation". BBC. 24 April 2020. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  11. Sawyer, Miranda (28 March 2021). "Radio roadshow: the Beeb's big move away from London". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  12. "War on Truth". BBC. 25 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2022.
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