Colin Morrison
295 posts
Colin Morrison is founder of Flashes & Flames: Global Media Business Weekly, which began as a blog and became a weekly newsletter in 2016.
Will Dow Jones fund Murdoch family deal?
It's just a month since the Murdoch family's real-time version of Succession ended with eldest son Lachlan securing…
17 October 2025
Anderson passes TED baton
The non-profit TED conference which has been led by former magazine publisher Chris Anderson for the past 25…
16 October 2025
How Nutracheck changed Immediate
The continual task of so much mass market print media is, of course, to use their accumulated brand…
10 October 2025
Arc becomes American
Arc Media Holdings, the four-year-old, UK-based, pe-owned B2B expects 2025 revenue to be some 70% from the US…
10 October 2025
Powering UK podcaster eyes US
It’s a long time since consumers became accustomed to the ready availability of print media brands, for example,…
8 October 2025
Is this the future for event startups?
It’s almost 20 years since Brit school leaver Toby Duckworth was selling ladders at London’s Ideal Home Show…
3 October 2025
Can Hearst UK break free?
It's tough being the child of successful parents. It's like that in business too. Take the Hearst Corp…
3 October 2025
Emslie racing ahead in trade shows
The onetime Arthur Andersen accountant Douglas (Doug) Emslie spent 25 years building Tarsus into a top 20 trade…
26 September 2025
What next for Metropolis?
Three weeks ago, we reported on the UK Mark Allen Group’s (MAG) success in reviving the 167-year-old Estates…
26 September 2025
How Guardian becomes American
Ole Jacob Sunde, chair of Scott Trust, charity owner of Guardian Media Group (GMG), introduced this year's annual…
19 September 2025