Mark Easton

Mark Easton
Born
Mark Richard Erskine Easton

(1959-03-12) 12 March 1959
EducationPeter Symonds Grammar School
OccupationsJournalist, presenter
Notable creditBBC News
SpouseAntonia Higgs
Children4

Mark Richard Erskine Easton (born 12 March 1959) is a writer and broadcaster. He is a Senior Fellow at the National Centre for Social Research, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He was Home Editor for BBC News broadcasting on national television and radio news from 2004 to 2025. His writing and presenting credits include Policing Protest for BBC Radio 4 in 2024, What Are the Police For?, for BBC Radio 4,The Happiness Formula on BBC Two in 2006 and The Crime of Our Lives for BBC Radio 4 in 2007. His first book, Britain etc., was published in 2012. His second book Islands: Searching for truth on the shoreline was published in October 2022.

He was previously social affairs editor at Channel 4 News and political editor at 5 News. Easton is a member of the Westminster Abbey Institute Council of Reference.