Marianna Spring

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Marianna Spring
EducationPembroke College, Oxford
OccupationJournalist

Marianna Spring is a British journalist, who is employed as the specialist disinformation and social media reporter for 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 of 2011 by a Year Eleven student.[1] 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 The Moscow Times.[2] She also edited Cherwell,[3] and won The Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017.[4] Spring has also written for The Guardian and Private Eye.[3]

Spring is the first ever specialist disinformation and social media reporter for the BBC appointed to the new role in March 2020.[5] [6] 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."[6] She was selected by forbes.com 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[]

Year Film Role Notes Ref.
2021 "Vaccines: The Disinformation War" (Panorama) reporter BBC One [7]

Radio[]

Year Film Role Notes Ref.
2020 How to Cure Viral Misinformation presenter BBC Radio 4 [10]
2021 BBC Trending: The Anti-Vax Files reporter BBC World Service [11]

References[]

  1. ^ Wood, Heloise (27 January 2014). "Young Reporter scheme helps schoolgirl win place at Oxford University". News Shopper. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  2. ^ "Undergraduate Linguist Marianna Spring Becomes News Reporter for The Moscow Times". Pemroke College, Oxford. 5 February 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b "Our amazing alumnae". Sutton High School. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  4. ^ Brindley, Lynn. "Master's Notes". The Pembroke Record 2016–2017. Pembroke College, Oxford. p. 4.
  5. ^ Spring, Marianna (1 November 2020). "How I talk to the victims of conspiracy theories". BBC News. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b 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)
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "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.

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