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Roles and responsibilities

• Jason is Director of Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Local and sits on the England Committee.
• He has responsibility for leading teams working across television, radio and online for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Local across England.

Biography

Jason Horton is Director of Production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Local, leading teams working in television, radio and online across England.

He started his career as a ´óÏó´«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 ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Cambridgeshire, where he led the radio station to record audiences as well as overseeing the move of the region's TV, radio and online teams to a new multimedia headquarters in Cambridge.

Jason has covered major stories in the South – he was the first ´óÏó´«Ã½ TV reporter on the scene of the Potters Bar train crash in 2002, as well as producing ´óÏó´«Ã½ Look East during the Soham murder investigation.

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 2022 Jason became Acting Director of ´óÏó´«Ã½ England before being appointed Director of Production in December 2022.

Expenses and central bookings

Expenses are costs incurred by ´óÏó´«Ã½ staff on behalf of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and claimed through the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s expenses system.

Central bookings are costs incurred on behalf of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ and booked through the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s central bookings system. Both expenses and central bookings are published every three months.

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• 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

Gifts and hospitality may only be accepted in line with ´óÏó´«Ã½ policy. Information about gifts and hospitality is published every three months.

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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

Staff must make a declaration of their personal and business interests, including any memberships or directorships of public or industry bodies, and any shareholdings, as well as any interests that their immediate families may also have.

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.

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