Nina Easton is a Goldsmith Fellow at the Shorenstein Center. She is Fortune magazine’s Washington columnist and senior editor, covering politics and economics in the nation’s capital. She is a regular panelist on “Fox News Sunday” and “Special Report,” and has provided analysis for numerous other shows, including “Meet the Press,” “Face the Nation,” “This Week,” and “Charlie Rose.” She is the author of Gang of Five: Leaders at the Center of the Conservative Ascendancy, which chronicled the rise of modern conservatism. As the Washington deputy bureau chief for The Boston Globe, she co-authored the book John F. Kerry: A Complete Biography and helped oversee the paper’s 2004 election coverage. In 2008, she covered the presidential election for Fortune and served as a primetime commentator on Fox News. During a decade-long career at the Los Angeles Times, Easton’s articles won numerous national awards. In addition to her editorial duties at Fortune, Easton serves as co-chair of the magazine’s annual Most Powerful Women Summit. She is originally from California and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of U.C. Berkeley. Her research project at the Shorenstein Center examined how Americans’ view of the rich is affected by growing income inequality.
Rebelling Against the Rich: Lessons from the media’s coverage of the 1% divide
September 10, 2012
A paper by former Fellow Nina Easton looks at how the media has covered wealth, as well as recent reporting on the one percent and Occupy Wall Street.
