SPORTS DIRECTOR - WMBF

FOX Carolina News • Myrtle Beach, SC

4d • Onsite

About The Position

WMBF-TV in Myrtle Beach, SC, has an immediate opening for a Sports Director to join our award-winning team. This person has a proven record of developing and covering local sports. We are committed to coverage of high school and college sports. We're looking for a creative, outgoing sports journalist who knows how to put together compelling, LOCAL sports stories and features.

Requirements

• Degree in sports journalism, broadcasting, communications, or related field
• At least 2 years of professional newsroom experience required
• An engaging and comfortable on-air personality to include live shots
• The ability and desire to enterprise and produce local sports stories and content
• Excellent communicator
• Team player with a positive attitude
• Detail-oriented

Nice To Haves

• Anchoring, reporting, and producing experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Enterprise, produce, and turn stories daily
• Serve as the primary sports talent
• Coordinate and plan coverage, including special reports
• Shoot, write, and edit sports stories and highlights with an emphasis on covering local sports
• Produce sports segments
• Be sports content-driven; this is your beat. Own it
• Write and post sports stories on multiple social media and digital platforms
• Report live from various sporting events
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level