Kspr Weekday Sports Anchor

The sports anchor will be responsible for leading KSPR’s coverage of, among other things, all local high school sports, coverage of: Missouri State, Drury, Evangel, Mizzou, Springfield Cardinals, KC Royals, and St. Louis Cardinals.  The candidate will also be responsible for helping produce and “front” a weekly thirty minute high school sports show.  Sports anchor must be able to shoot his/her own video at sporting events, create personalized sports packages, and go live for in-depth sports coverage.  The successful candidate must be able to do in-depth articles, updates, scores and video for our web site, Facebook, and be willing to Tweet as well.  The sports anchor will work closely with the Sports Director on a clear goal of local sports coverage.

Qualifications:

Education:

• College degree in journalism or related field required

Experience:

• At least 3 years of sports coverage required.
• 1-2 years of main sports anchor or sports director experience preferred
• Excellent television photography skills required.
• Ability to operate digital cameras (P2) and editing (Grass Valley) preferred.
• Computer knowledge including ENPS newsroom software, Microsoft applications and Internet use preferred
• Strong initiative and attention to detail is required.
• Experience in a newsroom leadership positions (sports director) is preferred

Essential Skills:

• Be able to write clearly and accurately
• All candidates must be able to work well under pressure
• Passionate journalist with strong integrity required
• Ability to maintain professional and ethical conduct at the station and in the community
• Willingness to be a hard-working staff member and work as part of a team is required
• Excellent live reporting skills required
• Strong on-camera presentation skills required
• Strong initiative and attention to detail is required
• Ability to work with limited supervision is a must
• Must possess excellent interview and conversational writing skills
• Ability to maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving in a manner that will work well with co-workers, supervisors and viewers
• Ability to keep up with national and local sports and news is required
• Ability to enterprise local sports feature stories is required
  

Essential Functions:

• Oversees daily sports assignments for hyper-local sportscasts
• Reports and edits sports stories of interest to the KSPR and KSPR.com viewers 
• Organizes and anchors special Friday night high school sports show
• Coordinates with News Director and Sports Director for special sports coverage.   
• Generates source contacts consistent with all aspects of sports
• Plans, produces, reports, shoots, edits and writes stories and sports segments
• Possesses the  ability to develop creative, hyper-local highly personalized sports stories
• Must possess excellent communication and organizational abilities, including working with the News Director, Sports Director and producers to ensure story accuracy and to determine the best presentation of reports
• Responsible for overseeing & creating a unique approach to all digital elements for the sport department including: KSPR Facebook page, Twitter, KSPR.com sports page and the Ozarks Sports Zone page.
•  Responds to phone calls and emails received concerning sports coverage.
• Must be capable of working quickly and effectively under deadline
• Must be willing to work flexible hours and work well with co-workers