Mediagazer: WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)

5:35 PM ET, October 15, 2025

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Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic — Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday: — Dear all,

Discussion: The Wrap

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YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K+ full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics — YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.

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Lucas Manfredi / The Wrap:

Netflix is merging Scanline, the VFX company it acquired in 2021, with Eyeline, its virtual production and R&D unit, to form a one-stop shop for digital tools — The streamer is merging its research lab Eyeline with longtime VFX house Scanline to create a one-stop shop for digital tools to better help creatives

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

LAT Media Group reports a net loss before taxes of $48.1M in 2024, up from $30M in 2023, with a $21.5M loss in H1 2025; 50%+ of revenue still came from print — More than half of Los Angeles Times revenue still came from print in 2024. — The Los Angeles Times Media Group made a loss of almost $50m …

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Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:

Meta adds group chats to Threads with support for up to 50 followers, rolling out globally, excluding the UK and Australia, and expands DMs to the EU — Users can add up to 50 people into a single conversation. … Threads users can create a group chat by starting a new message …

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Ben Croll / Variety:

As viewers move online, animation studios are forced to find new ways to finance their work; YouTube is emerging as a testing ground and launchpad for originals — To reach audiences migrating online, producers must develop new financing and distribution models beyond traditional broadcaster support

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Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:

DMG Media launches two social publishers to produce original content for the Daily Mail's TikTok and Instagram; its social channels have 150M followers in total — Daily Mail publisher DMG Media has launched two dedicated social publisher arms, “doubling down” on reaching young people and what they can offer advertisers.

Todd Spangler / Variety:

MSNBC says President Rebecca Kutler has been diagnosed with breast cancer but she has a good prognosis for recovery and expects to be away for only a few weeks — Rebecca Kutler, president of MSNBC, has been diagnosed with breast cancer but she has a good prognosis for recovery and expects …

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Trishla Ostwal / Adweek:

Over 20 ad tech companies including PubMatic, Optable, and Yahoo launch the Ad Context Protocol, a new open standard to support future agentic advertising — A consortium of ad tech companies is laying the groundwork for the next evolution of automated advertising.

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Scott Nover / Washington Post:

The WaPo, the NYT, the WSJ, the AP, Reuters, Newsmax, the Daily Caller, defense trade publications, and 40+ news outlets reject the Pentagon's new press policy — The network, which is generally supportive of the Trump administration, has joined ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN in not signing the Defense Department press policy.

Isaac Schorr / Mediaite:
Trump shows support for Pete Hegseth's Pentagon press restrictions, saying “the press is very dishonest”, after expressing skepticism about the rules last month

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