Roles and responsibilities
- Jason is Director of Production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local and sits on the England Committee.
- He has responsibility for leading teams working across a vast and unique set of television, radio and online services for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local across England from Cumbria to the Channel Islands.
- He leads 2000 staff across 39 Local Radio Stations, 43 News Websites, and 13 regional television news programmes at 6:30pm on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ One.
- ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local delivers investigative journalism across all local platforms, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ network television, and on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News App – and is the home of local sport in England on air and online.
Biography
Jason Horton is Director of Production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local, leading teams working in television, radio, and online across England.
He started his career as a ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Regional News Trainee in the East of England, working as a local radio journalist in Cambridge before becoming Look East’s TV reporter based at Three Counties Radio. He then moved back to Cambridge to produce Look East before moving to Three Counties as Assistant Editor and for a time, Acting Editor.
In 2005 Jason became Editor of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Cambridgeshire, where he led the radio station to record audiences.
In 2010 Jason moved to the South as Head of Region, before becoming Head of the South, South East, London and East in 2019.
In early 2022 Jason became Acting Director of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ England before being appointed Director of Production for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local in December 2022. Since then, he has led a major transformation of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s Local services, opening an additional 130 journalist posts across the country to enhance the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™s digital local news provision.
Under Jason’s leadership, weekly traffic to ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local’s online news services has increased to 16.9m (over 13% ahead of target), and local stories now represent almost 30% of all news articles read on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News website and app. Today, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Local’s news services are used by almost half the adult population in England each week – and the regional 6:30pm news programmes are the UK’s biggest TV news shows across any channel.
Annual remuneration (as at July 2025)
- £185,000 - £189,999
Expenses and central bookings
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Central bookings are costs incurred on behalf of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ and booked through the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s central bookings system.
Expenses and central bookings for the 2024/25 financial year onwards are available to view here.
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- Jason Horton’s expenses Q4 2023-24
- Jason Horton’s central bookings Q4 2023-24
- Jason Horton’s expenses Q3 2023-24
- Jason Horton’s central bookings Q3 2023-24
- Jason Horton had no expenses paid in Q1 2023-24
- Jason Horton had no central bookings in Q1 2023-24
- Jason Horton had no expenses paid in in Q4 2022-23
- Jason Horton had no central bookings in Q4 2022-23
- Jason Horton had no expenses paid in in Q3 2023-23
- Jason Horton had no central bookings in Q3 2022-23
Gifts and Hospitality Register
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- Jason Horton had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q3 2023-24
- Jason Horton had no gifts or hospitality to declare in Q2 2023-24
Declaration of personal interests
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A summary is published where there is something to declare and where there is nothing to declare. Occasionally an individual will have something to declare but due to the personal nature of the declaration we do not publish details as to do so would breach the General Data Protection Regulation.
This information is published annually, although if any amendments are made during the year an updated summary will be published if necessary as soon as it is available.