Yet Another '30 Under 30' Nominee Could Be Headed to Prison

Legacy media outlets get a lot of criticism these days, both fair and unfounded. Few that have stood the test of time did so with spotless records of journalistic integrity and may be coasting on their past laurels these days, but who among us is perfect? Then you’ve got cases like Forbes, where a once serious outlet has strayed so far from its original mission and become such an entirely different beast in recent years that you might start to forget that—before private equity got involved—they once were (and occasionally still are) breaking real news. From a crash-forecasting “STOCKS TOO HIGH!” headline in May of 1929 to its exposure of The New Republic’s serial fabulist journo Stephen Glass to unveiling Peter Thiel as the funder of Hulk Hogan’s Gawker suit in 2016, Forbes has been publishing important pieces throughout its 108-year history. It’s just a shame that the few reporters still staffed today have to battle against the stigma of the site’s pay-to-play “contributor” section and the myriad lists of powerful scions and scrappy up-and-comers the company is now most associated with. Much like a college degree, inclusion on one of these lists has gradually shifted from hard-won