{"id":636831,"date":"2026-08-14T13:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/636831\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:15:53","slug":"shook-research-races-to-reassure-advisors-after-new-york-times-reveals-forbes-terminated-top-editor-over-6-million-payout-but-critics-call-advice-gift-defense-hard-to-swallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/636831\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOOK Research races to reassure advisors after New York Times reveals Forbes terminated top editor over $6-million payout, but critics call &#8216;advice gift&#8217; defense hard to swallow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brooke&#8217;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&#8217;s still going to be uncomfortable. It just reminds people that this whole thing with \u201cbest of lists\u201d 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooke&#8217;s Note: I think many readers have a grudging acceptance that business publications need a side hustle to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[177],"tags":[269090,79,18,33068,269091,19,17,269094,234,235,269093,269089,269092,28529,6101],"class_list":["post-636831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-barrons","tag-business","tag-eire","tag-financial-advisor","tag-forbes-com","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-pay-for-plan","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-registered-investment-advisors","tag-rj-shook","tag-sara-grillo","tag-sec","tag-wealth-management"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117094054844053653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}