Jay Seaton is the owner/publisher of The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction, Colorado. Jay also manages four radio stations serving the Grand Valley that the Sentinel acquired in 2018.

Prior to his arrival at the Sentinel in 2009, Jay was a corporate and commercial litigation partner at the law firm of Lewis Rice in Kansas City, Missouri.  Prior to his position at Lewis Rice, Jay worked in toxic tort litigation at the law firm of Shook Hardy & Bacon.

Jay serves on the Colorado Economic Development Commission and the CareerWise Colorado Board of Directors. He is a past chair of Rocky Mountain Health Plans and the Grand Junction Economic Partnership. Jay also chairs the Grand Junction Air Service Alliance and noses into other efforts to improve life in western Colorado. Jay holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and received his juris doctorate from Kansas University in 1996.

Jay has two children: Katherine, who is a sophomore at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, and Beck, who is a sophomore at Fruita Monument High School.