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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. She is theBBC's firstdisinformationspecialist andsocial mediacorrespondent.

Early life

Spring was born on 21 February 1996.[1][2]Her father is a doctor and her mother is a family therapist and former nurse.[3]She grew up inSutton,South London,and has a younger sister.[2][3]Spring said she developed an interest in journalism at the age of eight, and would watchBBC World Newswhile on holiday.[4]

Spring attendedSutton High School, London,and became involved in a programme run byNewsquestfor young journalists, winning an award for best news article of 2011 by aYear Elevenstudent.[5]Spring was also aball girlatWimbledonwhile at school.[6]She studied French and Russian atPembroke College, Oxford(matriculating in 2014)[7]and wrote for and edited the student newspaperCherwell.[8]While there, Spring won theRonnie PaynePrize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017,[9]and later spent her year abroad inYaroslavl(Russia), and Paris, contributing news articles toThe Moscow Times,The Local,andLe Tarn Libre.[10][11]Spring undertook work experience atThe GuardianandPrivate Eye.[8][12]

Career

After graduation, she applied for various journalism programmes including at theBBCbut was not successful.[13]Senior news reporter forThe GuardianAlexandra Topping suggested that Spring contact various BBC journalists that she admired.Emily Maitlisreplied to Spring and gave her an opportunity to work onNewsnight.[14]She co-produced a segment for the programme, about protesters from across the French political spectrum joining thegilets jaunes,in December 2018.[15]

"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[16]

In March 2020, she was appointed the BBC's first specialistdisinformationand social media reporter, which followed the establishment of similar roles at American news organisations such asCNNandNBC.[16]In 2021, Spring began working as a reporter for the investigative current affairs programmePanorama,and was selected byForbesmagazine as one of their "30 Under 30"in the Media and Marketing category.[17][18]

She was promoted to correspondent in August 2022.[19]Spring was nominated as Young Talent of the Year at theRoyal Television Society's Journalism Awards in 2023.[20]In March 2023, she wrote an article for the BBC News on an increase introllingandonline abuseonTwitter under Elon Musk.[21]Musk responded by mockingly tweeting a screenshot of the article.[22]This led to an increase in abuse towards Spring, who toldThe Sunday Timesin August 2023 that according to an internal BBC monitoring system she had received more than 80% of all online abuse directed at BBC journalists in the first six months of the year.[2][23][24]

In September 2023,The New Europeanalleged that Spring had previously lied on a CV when applying for a job in 2018 in Moscow for U.S.-based news websiteCoda Story.[25][26][27]

Since 2022, Spring has been a regular contributor to the BBC podcast andRadio 4programmeAmericast,for which using data supplied by thePew Research Center,she created social media accounts for five "undercover voters" from across the political spectrum in order to report on the content they were receiving.[28][29]Her debut book,Among the Trolls: Notes from the Disinformation Wars,was published byAtlantic Booksin March 2024.[30][31]

In April 2024, she was a guest on thefirst episode of the sixty-seventh seriesofBBC Onesatirical panel showHave I Got News for You.[32]

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]
[33]
[34]
[35]
2023 The TikTok Effect Presenter [36]

Radio

Year(s) Title Role Notes Ref(s)
2020 How to Cure Viral Misinformation Presenter [37]
2021 The Anti-Vax Files Presenter [38]
2021 The Denial Files Presenter Podcast [39]
2022 Death by Conspiracy? Presenter Podcast [40]
2022 War on Truth Presenter Podcast [41]
2022–present Americast Co-host Podcast [42]
2022 Disaster Trolls Presenter Podcast [43]
2023 Marianna in Conspiracyland Host Podcast [44][45]
2024 Why Do You Hate Me? Presenter [46][47]

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).Archivedfrom the original on 31 October 2022.Retrieved31 October2022– viaTwitter.
  2. ^abcSpring, Marianna (6 August 2023)."The BBC's Marianna Spring: 'It's really normal to really hate me'".The Sunday Times(Interview). Interviewed by Phoebe Luckhurst.Retrieved6 August2023.
  3. ^abWilliams, Zoe (4 September 2023)."The BBC's Marianna Spring: 'The more violent the rhetoric, the more important it is I expose it'".The Guardian.Retrieved21 September2023.
  4. ^Anderson & Spring (2021),2:00.
  5. ^Wood, Heloise (27 January 2014)."Young Reporter scheme helps schoolgirl win place at Oxford University".News Shopper.Archivedfrom the original on 31 October 2022.Retrieved14 April2021.
  6. ^Fox, Claire (30 June 2010)."Sutton school girl meets the Queen".Your Local Guardian.Retrieved8 July2023.
  7. ^"Alumna Marianna Spring Features on Forbes '30 under 30' list".Pembroke College.Oxford. 20 April 2021.Archivedfrom the original on 13 July 2021.Retrieved5 November2022.
  8. ^ab"Our amazing alumnae".Sutton High School.Archivedfrom the original on 22 May 2022.Retrieved14 April2021.
  9. ^Brindley, Lynne."Master's Notes".The Pembroke Record 2016–2017.Oxford: Pembroke College. p. 4.
  10. ^"Undergraduate Linguist Marianna Spring Becomes News Reporter for The Moscow Times".Pembroke College, Oxford. 5 February 2016.Retrieved14 April2021.
  11. ^"Undergraduate Marianna Spring Awarded Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting".Pembroke College, Oxford. 23 February 2017.
  12. ^Hancock, Charlie (1 January 2022)."In Conversation with Marianna Spring".Cherwell.
  13. ^Anderson & Spring (2021),7:03.
  14. ^Anderson & Spring (2021),7:43.
  15. ^Clayton, James (8 December 2018)."Gilets jaunes: Are nationalists infiltrating the 'yellow vests'?".BBC News.Retrieved16 April2023.
  16. ^abSpring, Marianna (21 March 2021)."My crazy first year down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole".The Sunday Times.London.Retrieved8 December2022.
  17. ^ab"Panorama: Vaccines: The Disinformation War".BBC. 20 February 2021.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved14 April2021.
  18. ^"Marianna Spring".Forbes.Retrieved14 April2021.
  19. ^@mariannaspring (9 August 2022)."Delighted I've been promoted from reporter & I'm now the BBC's first Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent!..."(Tweet).Archivedfrom the original on 8 November 2022.Retrieved13 November2022– viaTwitter.
  20. ^"RTS Television Journalism Awards 2023 in partnership with Wolftech and Dataminr".Royal Television Society. 3 October 2022.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved12 February2023.
  21. ^Spring, Marianna (6 March 2023)."Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk".BBC News.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved10 August2023.
  22. ^Kanter, Jake (6 March 2023)."Elon Musk Says He's 'Laughing His A** Off' At BBC Claim That Trolling Has Gotten Worse On Twitter".Deadline Hollywood.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved6 August2023.
  23. ^Swerling, Gabriella (6 August 2023)."It's normal to hate me, says BBC's first disinformation correspondent".The Sunday Telegraph.Retrieved6 August2023.
  24. ^Frost, Caroline (6 August 2023)."80% Of The BBC's Online Abuse Is Addressed To One Female Journalist: 'It's Normal To Hate Me'".Deadline Hollywood.Retrieved6 August2023.
  25. ^"When the BBC's disinformation correspondent lied on her CV".The New European.London. 6 September 2023.Retrieved8 September2023.
  26. ^Kanter, Jake (8 September 2023)."BBC Disinformation Correspondent Marianna Spring Accused Of Lying On Her Resume".Deadline Hollywood.Retrieved21 September2023.
  27. ^McTaggart, India (8 September 2023)."BBC's disinformation reporter 'lied on her CV'".The Telegraph.London.Retrieved22 February2024.
  28. ^"BBC's Justin Webb, Sarah Smith and Marianna Spring join Americast"(Press release). London: BBC. 12 July 2023 [30 August 2022].Retrieved13 April2024.
  29. ^Spring, Marianna (7 November 2022)."US midterms: How BBC's voter profiles were shown hate and disinformation online".BBC News.London.Retrieved13 April2024.
  30. ^Wood, Heloise (13 July 2021)."Spring's disinformation debut goes to Atlantic in three-way auction".The Bookseller.London.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved13 July2021.
  31. ^Naughton, John (3 March 2024)."Among the Trolls by Marianna Spring review – into the cesspit of online hatred".The Guardian.London.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved13 April2024.
  32. ^"Have I Got News for You, Series 67, episode 1".BBC One.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved19 June2024.
  33. ^"Panorama: Online abuse: Why do you hate me".BBC. 20 October 2021.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved1 June2022.
  34. ^"A social media murder: Olly's story".BBC News. 19 June 2022.Retrieved31 October2022.
  35. ^"The UK terror survivors tracked down by 'disaster trolls'".BBC News. 31 October 2022.
  36. ^"The TikTok Effect".BBC.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved5 October2023.
  37. ^"How to Cure Viral Misinformation".BBC. 24 April 2020.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved14 April2021.
  38. ^Sawyer, Miranda (28 March 2021)."Radio roadshow: the Beeb's big move away from London".The Guardian.London.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved14 April2021.
  39. ^"The Denial Files".BBC.Retrieved1 November2022.
  40. ^"Death by Conspiracy?".BBC Sounds.Retrieved31 October2022.
  41. ^"War on Truth".BBC. 25 March 2022.Retrieved25 March2022.
  42. ^"BBC's Justin Webb, Sarah Smith and Marianna Spring join Americast"(Press release). London: BBC. 30 August 2022.Archivedfrom the original on 10 December 2022.Retrieved10 December2022.
  43. ^"Disaster Trolls".BBC Sounds.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved31 October2022.
  44. ^"Marianna in Conspiracyland"(Press release). London: BBC.Archivedfrom the original on 7 June 2023.Retrieved15 June2023.
  45. ^Sawyer, Miranda (17 June 2023)."The week in audio: Marianna in Conspiracyland; Women of Web3; Gateway: Cocaine, Murder & Dirty Money in Europe; The Archers".The Guardian.Archivedfrom the original on 19 July 2024.Retrieved26 June2023.
  46. ^"Why Do You Hate Me?".BBC.London.Retrieved13 April2024.
  47. ^Nicol, Patricia (28 January 2024)."Why Do You Hate Me? review — why discord reigns on social media".The Times.London.Retrieved13 April2024.

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