“I believe Marketplace has since been running CNN Underscored Money with little, if any, oversight from the main CNN team.”
CNN Underscored Money pulls over 600,000 search visits a month and ranks second for “best loan apps.” Its privacy policy names an LLC whose manager shares a name with the CFO of Forbes Marketplace. A USA Today Blueprint editor listed a marketplace.co email until someone scrubbed it. CNN and USA Today rent their names to an affiliate shop, and Google ranks the rental as journalism.