Sports Director: Lead Multi-Platform Local Sports

TEGNA; Fayetteville (AR); On-site; USD 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

Dental & vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Teladoc virtual care

Spring Health therapy

Job summary

TEGNA's KFSM-TV in Fayetteville, AR seeks a creative Sports Director to lead the station’s sports coverage across broadcast, streaming and digital platforms. You’ll host a daily streaming show, cover Razorbacks and high school sports, and set the editorial direction with engaging storytelling on mobile and social.

This role requires a proven sports journalist with on‑camera presence, strong reporting skills, and the ability to develop sources and break stories, including nights, weekends, and

Qualifications

• 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.
• Willingness to work nights, weekends and holidays, with a schedule that follows the sports calendar.

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.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the News Director.

Skills

On-camera presence

Storytelling

Journalistic writing

Source development

Social media growth

Editorial judgment

Education

Journalism or Communications degree preferred

Tools

Nonlinear editing

Camera operation

Video editing

Job description

TEGNA's KFSM-TV in Fayetteville, AR seeks a creative Sports Director to lead the station’s sports coverage across broadcast, streaming and digital platforms. You’ll host a daily streaming show, cover Razorbacks and high school sports, and set the editorial direction with engaging storytelling on mobile and social.

This role requires a proven sports journalist with on‑camera presence, strong reporting skills, and the ability to develop sources and break stories, including nights, weekends, and