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 Lamar University and high school sports.

What you will do

• Set the editorial direction for the station's sports coverage across broadcast, streaming, digital and social.
• Host and help produce a daily streaming sports show.
• Cover the Lamar Cardinals, including games, practices, news conferences, recruiting and the stories behind the program.
• 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 your own content.
• Create mobile-first and vertical video built for the platform it lives on.
• Write and post daily to the website, the app and all social platforms.
• Build and maintain an active, credible personal social media presence.
• Work with news managers and producers to integrate sports into daily 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 and ability to manage overlapping seasons, a daily show and breaking news.
• Sound editorial judgment and a firm grasp of the tenets of professional journalism.
• Willingness to work nights, weekends and holidays.
• Current driver's license.
• Ability to operate a news-gathering vehicle to and from various locations.

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.