Marianna Spring (born 21 February 1996) is a British broadcast journalist. Spring is the

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's first specialist

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and social media correspondent.

Biography

Spring was born on 21 February 1996. She has a sister. Spring reports an early interest in journalism from the age of eight which included watching

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on holiday. She attended Sutton High School, an independent school in London, and while there she was involved in a programme run by

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for young journalists, and won an award for the best news article of 2011 by a

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student. She studied French and Russian at

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(matriculating in 2014) and wrote for and later became the editor of the student newspaper '' Cherwell''. Spring won the Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017. She spent her year abroad in

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, Russia and Paris, France and contributed news articles to ''

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'', ''The Local'', and ''Le Tarn Libre''. During university, Spring also undertook work experience at ''

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'' and ''

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''. After graduation, she applied for various journalism programmes including for the

but was not successful. Senior news reporter for ''The Guardian'' Alexandra Topping suggested to Spring to directly contact various BBC journalists that she admired.

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replied to Spring and gave her an opportunity to work on ''

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''. In March 2020, she was appointed as the BBC's first ever specialist

and social media reporter which followed the establishment of similar roles at American news organisations such as CNN and

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. In 2021 Spring started to work as a reporter for current affairs documentary programme ''

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'' and was selected by ''

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'' as one of their Media and Marketing "30 Under 30" in 2021. She was promoted to correspondent in August 2022. Her debut book ''Among the Trolls: Notes From the Disinformation Wars'' is due for publication from

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in autumn 2023.

Television

Radio

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Spring, Marianna Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford BBC newsreaders and journalists People educated at Sutton High School, London English women journalists English journalists 1996 births Living people