Sports Director

Responsibilities

• 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 Arkansas Razorbacks, 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 that reflects the 5NEWS brand.
• Work with news managers and producers to integrate sports into daily newscasts and coordinate highlight coverage on busy game nights.
• Represent the station in the community and maintain strong relationships with coaches, athletic directors and sports information staff.

Requirements

• Minimum 1-3 years of sports reporting and anchoring experience.
• Journalism or Communications degree preferred.
• Strong on-camera presence and the 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 and a portfolio of original mobile and vertical content.
• Prominent ability to develop sources and break stories.
• Exceptional organization and the ability to manage overlapping seasons, a daily show and breaking news at the same time.
• Sound editorial judgment and a firm grasp of the tenets of professional journalism.
• Willingness to work nights, weekends and holidays, with a schedule that follows the sports calendar.
• Ability to lift and carry field equipment.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families.
• Treatment of health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union for some newsroom bargaining unit employees.