# Sports Director

**Company**: TEGNA Inc.
**Location**: Beaumont, TX
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Communications
**Industry**: Other

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## Description

We are seeking a creative, enterprising Sports Director to lead the station's sports product across every platform.

As a Sports Director at KBMT/KJAC-TV Beaumont, a TEGNA ABC and NBC affiliate, you will set the editorial vision for our sports coverage, host a daily streaming show, and build a following that travels with you wherever the story is.

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 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 that reflects the 12NEWS 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

- Proven 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 package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage

- 401(k) program with company match

- Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

- Access to Teladoc and Spring Health programs

## Skills

### Required
- sports reporting
- anchoring
- video production
- social media
- journalism

### Nice to have
- Journalism or Communications degree
- nonlinear editing tools
- mobile-first content creation

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