[4] 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.
[8] While there, Spring won the Ronnie Payne Prize for Outstanding Foreign Reporting in 2017,[9] and later spent her year abroad in Yaroslavl (Russia), and Paris, contributing news articles to The Moscow Times, The Local, and Le Tarn Libre.
In March 2020, she was appointed the BBC's first specialist disinformation and social media reporter, which followed the establishment of similar roles at American news organisations such as CNN and NBC.
[16] In 2021, 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.
[2][23][24] In September 2023, The New European alleged that Spring had previously lied on a CV when applying for a job in 2018 in Moscow for U.S.-based news website Coda Story.
[26] Since 2022, 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.