Sports Director

The role

The Sports Director will set the editorial vision for sports coverage across broadcast, streaming, digital, and social platforms. This role involves hosting a daily streaming show and covering Arkansas Razorbacks and high school sports.

What you will do

• Set the editorial direction for sports coverage across broadcast, streaming, digital and social.
• Host and help produce a daily streaming sports show.
• Cover the Arkansas Razorbacks, including games, practices, news conferences, and recruiting.
• Lead year-round high school sports coverage.
• Break news through cultivated sources, social listening and independent enterprise reporting.
• Develop story ideas and shoot, write, edit and voice content.
• Create mobile-first and vertical video.
• Write and post daily to the website, app and social platforms.
• Build and maintain an active personal social media presence.
• Work with news managers and producers to integrate sports into newscasts.

Required qualifications

• Minimum 1-3 years of sports reporting and anchoring experience.
• Strong on-camera presence.
• Ability to write in an exciting, authentic and accurate voice.
• Proficiency shooting and editing with current field and nonlinear editing tools.
• Demonstrated social media following.
• Portfolio of original mobile and vertical content.
• Proven ability to develop sources and break stories.
• Exceptional organization to manage overlapping seasons, a daily show and breaking news.
• Sound editorial judgment and grasp of professional journalism tenets.
• Willingness to work nights, weekends and holidays.
• Ability to lift and carry field equipment.
• Current driver's license and ability to operate a news-gathering vehicle.

Nice to have

• Journalism or Communications degree

Benefits

• Two medical plan options through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas
• Dental and eye care coverage
• Fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance
• Disability and life insurance
• 401(k) with 100% match on the first 4% of pay
• Nine free virtual doctor's appointments through Teladoc
• 12 free annual therapy sessions through Spring Health
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Nine paid holidays per year

About the company

TEGNA Inc. helps people thrive in their local communities by providing local news and services. It has 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets.