Sports Director
In this role, you will be required to produce daily sports content on a variety of platforms, along with performing other duties as assigned by the news managers. We are looking for someone with a clear understanding of how to cover College and High School Sports using strong storytelling and TV production techniques to make our stories impactful and memorable. Dynamic live television and storytelling skills are a must.
Important Details:
- This is a one-person sports department
- You will anchor sports 5 evenings per week. The schedule depends on what's happening in local college and high school sports, but typically includes weekends and holidays
- You will shoot and edit your own stories, and operate your own LiveU.
- In this role, you will coordinate, schedule, and communicate the weekly sports schedule along with our seasonal high school sports shows: Football Friday and Full Court Press. You will schedule several photographers to assist you shooting the high school highlights.
- Our coverage priorities are: High School Sports, College Sports (especially Liberty University, Virginia Tech and UVA), and NASCAR (the Martinsville Speedway is in our viewing area).
- A self-starter and who can generate his or her own story ideas on a daily basis
- Someone who can break stories before anyone else
- Ability to demonstrate enterprise reporting and creativity in storytelling
- Exemplary communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to maintain an active social media presence to build your brand and solicit original story ideas
- Previous anchoring and reporting experience is required
- Must have at least 5 years of on-air experience
- Live shot experience is required
- Previous experience working in a team environment is a must
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