# Sports Director

**Company**: TEGNA Inc.
**Location**: Fayetteville, AR
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

KFSM-TV, a TEGNA CBS affiliate in Fayetteville, AR, is seeking a Sports Director to lead the station's sports product across all platforms.

The ideal candidate will set the editorial vision for sports coverage, host a daily streaming show, and build a following that engages with the story wherever it is.

Responsibilities:

- Set editorial direction for sports coverage across broadcast, streaming, digital, and social platforms

- Host and produce a daily streaming sports show

- Cover the Arkansas Razorbacks, including games, practices, news conferences, recruiting, and related stories

- Lead year-round high school sports coverage

- Break news through cultivated sources, social listening, and independent reporting

- Develop story ideas, shoot, write, edit, and voice content

- Create mobile-first and vertical video content

- Write and post daily updates on the website, app, and social platforms

- Build and maintain a personal social media presence reflecting the 5NEWS brand

- Integrate sports into daily newscasts and coordinate highlight coverage

- Represent the station in the community and maintain relationships with coaches and sports information staff

- Perform other duties as assigned by the News Director

Requirements:

- 1-3 years of sports reporting and anchoring experience

- Journalism or Communications degree preferred

- Strong on-camera presence and writing skills

- Proficiency with current field and nonlinear editing tools

- Demonstrated social media following and mobile content portfolio

- Ability to develop sources and break stories

- Exceptional organization and multitasking skills

- Sound editorial judgment and understanding of professional journalism

- Willingness to work nights, weekends, and holidays

- Ability to lift and carry field equipment

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, and eye care coverage

- 401(k) program with company match

- Paid Time Off and paid holidays

- Access to virtual doctor's appointments and therapy sessions

## Skills

### Required
- sports reporting
- anchoring
- video production
- social media management
- storytelling
- news gathering
- editing

### Nice to have
- journalism degree
- communications degree
- nonlinear editing tools
- mobile content creation

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