Nina Easton

Nina Easton is Washington Bureau Chief for Fortune Magazine and a regular panelist on Special Report with Brit Hume and Fox News Sunday. Before joining Fortune she served as Deputy Washington Bureau Chief of the Boston Globe and lead national political writer. She has also been a commentator on CNN's "NewsNight," ABC's "This Week" and CBS's "Face the Nation," among others. Nina is author of the acclaimed "Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy" (Simon & Schuster, 2002), which was praised by the Washington Post for telling the story of post-Reagan conservatism "more inventively, exhaustively and entertainingly than anyone else." Her insights into the rise of the modern political right prompted the Wall Street Journal to dub her "the Dian Fossey of conservatism." At the Globe, Nina co-authored "John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography" (Public Affairs), served as a lead editor of the 2003 newspaper series on which the book was based, and oversaw much of the paper's 2004 presidential campaign coverage. From 1988 until 1998, Nina was a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times and its Sunday Magazine. Her articles won numerous awards, including the National Headliners Award for best magazine writing and the Sunday Magazine Editors Award for investigative reporting. Before joining the Los Angeles Times, she covered business for The American Banker, Business Week and Legal Times. In 1982, she co-authored the book "Reagan's Ruling Class: Portraits of the President's Top 100 Officials". She is a native of California and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of U.C. Berkeley.