Core Duties and Responsibilities: • Company research: Prepare profiles of potential partners, customers, acquisition targets, vendors, investors, and other organizations. • Financial research: Review public filings, earnings reports, investor presentations, industry data, and other financial information. • Strategic research: Support management in evaluating new markets, products, geographic expansion, partnerships, licensing opportunities, and investments. • Executive briefings: Produce concise research memos, background reports, talking points, charts, and briefing materials for executives. • Market research: Analyze industry size, growth rates, trends, competitive conditions, and emerging opportunities. • Data collection and analysis: Gather information from databases, government records, surveys, trade associations, research firms, and credible online sources and turn it into actionable findings. • Fact checking: Verify statistics, claims, quotations, company information, and other material before it is used internally or externally. • Regulatory and policy research: Track legislation, regulations, government policies, court decisions, and agency actions relevant to the company's operations. • Special projects: Conduct rapid research for senior executives on acquisitions, business development opportunities, corporate communications, litigation, presentations, or other priority matters. • Cross-department support: Work with finance, legal, business development, marketing, communications, and senior management on research-intensive projects. • Recommendations: Go beyond simply collecting information by identifying key findings, risks, opportunities, and recommended next steps. • News and developments: Monitor news, government actions, regulatory developments, economic trends, and other events that could affect the company. News Research to Include: • Conduct in-depth research on breaking news, developing stories, current events, public figures, organizations, government agencies, businesses, and other topics relevant to Newsmax programming. • Provide producers, anchors, reporters, and editorial leadership with timely background research, facts, statistics, timelines, and other information needed for news coverage. • Monitor news developments throughout the day and identify relevant information, updates, and potential story angles. • Research and develop background materials for interviews, guest appearances, breaking-news coverage, and special programming. • Prepare concise research briefs, background documents, timelines, fact sheets, and other materials for producers, anchors, and newsroom leadership. • Research potential guests, experts, newsmakers, and other individuals relevant to developing stories and planned programming. • Review government reports, court records, public filings, studies, polling data, transcripts, news reports, and other primary and secondary sources. • Conduct research across multiple sources and evaluate the credibility, accuracy, and relevance of information. • Quickly respond to research requests from producers and newsroom leadership during breaking-news situations. • Perform additional duties and responsibilities as assigned. Position Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Journalism, Communications, Political Science, History, English, Liberal Arts International Relations, Research, or a related field preferred. • Previous experience in corporate research, news research, television production, digital media, investigative research, or a related field preferred. • Strong knowledge of current events, politics, government, business, international affairs, and the broader news landscape. • Exceptional research and fact-checking skills with demonstrated ability to locate and evaluate information from credible sources. • Ability to quickly research unfamiliar or complex subjects and summarize findings clearly and accurately. • Experience researching public records, government documents, court records, public filings, databases, and other primary sources preferred. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. • Strong attention to detail with a commitment to accuracy and factual integrity. • Ability to clearly organize and present research findings for staff. • Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple assignments simultaneously. • Proficiency with Microsoft Office, online research tools including artificial intelligence and databases. • Flexibility to work outside standard business hours as required by breaking news and major events. Compensation & Benefits: • Competitive salary - $85k -$105k depending on skills and relevant experience. • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans. • 401(k) retirement plan with company match. • Paid time off and holidays. • Collaborative and inclusive work environment.