Mark Easton has been Home Editor for BBC News since April 2004. The role covers the main areas of UK life and public policy, including welfare, health and education. Mark was previously the Home and Social Affairs Editor at Channel 4 News.

He began his BBC career as a reporter on the South East magazine programme London Plus in 1986, before moving to Breakfast News and then on to Newsnight in 1989. Mark joined ITN in 1996 as Political Editor of Channel Five News and moved to Channel 4 three years later.

Mark has made a number of documentaries for Channel 4, and his work was included in the entry which won the channel the Emmy Award for International News in 2003. He was named Bar Council Legal Journalist of the Year in 2004 and in 2007 wrote and presented the Radio 4 series "Crime of Our Lives" which chronicled the story of crime in Britain since World War Two. Mark also writes a blog for the BBC - Mark Easton's UK - which was recently nominated for an international Online Journalism Award and also for the Orwell Prize.