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Mark Richard Erskine Easton (born 12 March 1959 in Bearsden, Glasgow) is the Home Editor for BBC News broadcasting on national television and radio news. He also writes a blog for the BBC, 'Mark Easton's UK' which was a finalist at the Online Journalism Awards in 2009 and winner of the Royal Statistical Society award for statistical excellence in journalism in 2010. He heads the BBC's UK Specialists Unit and has also written and presented numerous current affairs programmes including The Happiness Formula. on BBC2 in 2006 and the Crime of Our Lives for BBC Radio 4 in 2007. His programme "Judges in the Dock" for Channel 4 Dispatches saw him named Bar Council Legal Journalist of the Year (Broadcast) 2003-04.
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Early life and career
He is the son of Stephen and Fiona Easton. At the age of ten, his parents moved from Scotland to Winchester and he attended Peter Symonds Grammar School in Winchester.
He joined his local newspaper, the Southern Evening Echo, in 1979 having decided upon a career in journalism after winning a game of Waddington's "Scoop" as a boy. He worked at Radio Victory from 1980-1, at Radio Aire from 1981-2 and at LBC from 1982-6. He worked at the BBC from 1986-96 as a reporter on London Plus, BBC Breakfast News, Newsnight and Here and Now. From 1996-8 he was the Political Editor of Channel 5 and during 1998-2004 he was the Home and Social Affairs Editor of Channel 4. Since 2004 he has been the Home Editor of BBC News.
He has a wife and four children.[1]
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