15 Facts About Marianna Spring

Marianna Spring was born on 21 February 1996 and is a British broadcast journalist.

Marianna Spring is the BBC's first disinformation specialist and social media correspondent.

Marianna Spring's father is a doctor and her mother is a family therapist and former nurse.

Marianna Spring grew up in Sutton, South London, and has a younger sister.

Marianna Spring attended Sutton High School, London, and became involved in a programme run by Newsquest for young journalists, winning an award for best news article of 2011 by a Year Eleven student.

Marianna Spring was a ball girl at Wimbledon while at school.

Marianna Spring studied French and Russian at Pembroke College, Oxford and wrote for and edited the student newspaper Cherwell.

Marianna Spring undertook work experience at The Guardian and Private Eye.

Emily Maitlis replied to Marianna Spring and gave her an opportunity to work on Newsnight.

Marianna Spring co-produced a segment for the programme, about protesters from across the French political spectrum joining the gilets jaunes, in December 2018.

In 2021, Marianna Spring began working as a reporter for the investigative current affairs programme Panorama, and was selected by Forbes magazine as one of their "30 Under 30" in the Media and Marketing category.

Marianna Spring was nominated as Young Talent of the Year at the Royal Television Society's Journalism Awards in 2023.

In September 2023, The New European alleged that Marianna Spring had previously lied on a CV when applying for a job in 2018 in Moscow for US-based news website Coda Story.

Marianna Spring had claimed that in 2018 she worked alongside BBC Eastern Europe correspondent Sarah Rainsford.

Since 2022, Marianna Spring has been a regular contributor to the BBC podcast and Radio 4 programme Americast, for which using data supplied by the Pew 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.