Brooke’s Note: I think many readers have a grudging acceptance that business publications need a side hustle to get by. Maybe they do. But when one of your editors gets $6 million from the owner of the company that executes your side business, it’s still going to be uncomfortable. It just reminds people that this whole thing with “best of lists” never really looked like a pure journalistic endeavor in the first place. And so, are you really a journalistic publication? Maybe not totally. And, is your third-party view about financial advisors really all that valuable or legitimate? Kudos to The New York Times for raising the issue by breaking the news, and for not depending on a business model that involves endorsing financial advisors.
