A request by six Montana media organizations to open all court documents in the Michael Brown murder case has been denied by an Anaconda judge. Brown is accused of shooting and killing four people in the town’s Owl Bar last summer. 

Media firms are facing challenges related to sales compensation in 2025, Max Bartels writes in Demand Gen Report. Organizations must look at aligning pay for performance and balancing integrated portfolio sales while creating programs that respond to emerging sales approaches like hybrid artificial intelligence, agent/human and self service.    

New Mexico legislators are considering a proposal to fund tribal media stations, Native News Online reports.. The proposal by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham would provide $430,000 to the stations in an effort to fill federal funding gaps. 

TikTok, now in U.S. hands, has announced a new privacy policy that is raising questions about the extent of its data collection, CBS News reports. One concern is a policy that allows TikTok to collect “precise location information” from its users’ devices if they enable location services. One social media user attacked the policy as “beyond invasive and predatory.” 

Meta added 40 million users in Q4 2025, bringing its total to 3.58 billion daily active users of its apps, Social Media Today reports. Meanwhile, the social media giant reported revenue of $59.89 for the quarter and $200.97 billion for the entire year. 

A measure that would have banned social media use by children under age 13 has been stripped out of an Indiana Bill, Indy Star reports.  State Senator Jeff Raatz submitted an amendment to cut the language from the omnibus K-12 bill. Indiana might have faced a legal battle in federal court over the bill. Similar language may return later. 

Media consumers are being exposed to an endless scroll of tall videos that form an algorithmic silhouette, New York Magazine writes. This is being done by following a series of steps laid out by Meta: “Gather inventory,” “leverage signals,” “make predictions,” and “rank reels by score.”

Six companies dominate the U.S. media industry: Comcast, Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, Sony, and Amazon, The Motley Fool writes. Comcast is the largest pay-TV and home internet provider in the U.S. The Warner Bros.-Discovery merger creates a player with extensive media assets.  

Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS News, said on Tuesday that CBS should be turned into a digital engine that meets news consumers far from broadcast TV. “We are not producing a product enough people want,” she said, according to The New York Times.   

Pinterest has added a “Media Planner” feature to help advertisers control Pin campaigns and promotions. The new media planner is built into Ads Manager and does not require manual modeling on spreadsheets, Pinterest says, according to Social Media Today.