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more about #mcgrawhill more comments → Cheap Shot: I just realized I know someone that works there. I think he's okay. more » BartholomewBurhans: Forgive the lack of registration, (and the long comment) but my mother was just fired yesterday from her job yesterday (works in Chicago office) after... more » Richard Lawson: I used to work on the 22nd floor of that building. Bunch of nice people who work there. Sad. more » notsofresh: The release chalks up the layoffs to the "the consolidation and automation of certain functions." I guess that means the copyeditors have all been rep... more » Cheap Shot: I don't care about those people since Nick Denton took my star away. Where shall I send my salacious insider media gossip now? more » DahlELama: Wow, that's rough...somehow I thought the "textbook division" was the kind of thing that would always be safe, but hey, it's good to know that the nex... more » DeadFred: Schools are finally waking up and not spending hundreds of dollars for an individual textbook that will be outdated in a matter of months. That whole ... more » Mr. Kim Gordons Panties: He gave back the advance, which reverted rights to him, allowing him to publish elsewhere. more » Uncle_Billy_Slumming: "Ritholtz says most of his sources are either articles posted online or books available on Amazon.com" That's odd -- they don't seem to be worried abo... more » -
#media
550 Layoffs at McGraw-Hill
McGraw-Hill is currently trying to sell off BusinessWeek, but they'll be lucky to make a buck on the deal. Worse: today the company announced it has laid off 550 people. More » -
#books
Wiley Bails Out Bailout Nation
Barry Ritholtz, the feisty stock-market blogger who sparred with McGraw-Hill over a book which criticized its S&P bond-rating unit, has found a new publisher for Bailout Nation. More » -
#synergy
McGraw-Hill Mixes Its Book and Bond-Rating Businesses
In his forthcoming book, Bailout Nation, financial blogger Barry Ritholtz sticks some of the blame for Wall Street's meltdown on credit-rating agencies like S&P. McGraw-Hill owns S&P — and now it's not publishing Ritholtz's book. More »
