Colin Morrison
308 posts
Colin Morrison is founder of Flashes & Flames: Global Media Business Weekly, which began as a blog and became a weekly newsletter in 2016.
‘AI just part of disruption’: FT’s Jon Slade
Jon Slade was appointed CEO of the Nikkei-owned Financial Times in July this year, succeeding John Ridding, after…
4 December 2025
Charlie Kerr gets back to work
S & P Global this week completed its $1.8bn acquisition of London-based financial data provider With Intelligence. The…
28 November 2025
Aussie trade show creator x3 in four years
The Australian trade show group National Media was this month named as the 62nd fastest growing company in…
21 November 2025
Daily Mail Group agrees to buy Telegraph
The Daily Mail publisher, the privately-owned Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), has signed an agreement with RedBird IMI to acquire…
21 November 2025
How CloserStill will be trade show champion
After a year during which the world’s third largest trade show organiser, Clarion Events, has seemingly tried and…
14 November 2025
Bauer is 40% radio but look what’s coming
It's five years since the Bauer Media Group, of Germany, painfully exited the Australian andNew Zealand magazine markets…
14 November 2025
How RedBird can (still) get the Telegraph
In December, it will be two years since the US private equity firm RedBird - with the United…
7 November 2025
How Messe Munich is going global
The announcement last month that the long-established (but declining) ISPO sports trade show would move from Munich to…
7 November 2025
Haymarket back to health
In May, the Trump Administration's health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr threatened - characteristically during a podcast -…
7 November 2025
When (and where) will Axel Springer swoop?
It’s just over a year since Axel Springer agreed the divestment of its €10bn classified advertising business to…
31 October 2025