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.
Could there be a surprise Clarion deal?
It's almost five months since we reported that Blackstone's planned auction of its UK-based Clarion Events, the world's…
15 August 2025
11 CEOs for ‘unique’ AI event
The speakers for “The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events” feature no fewer than 11 leading CEOs…
14 August 2025
2020 Rewind: One-man mag cooks the books
Ed Needham is a Brit who spent almost two decades as editor in the UK and US of…
13 August 2025
How Meredith ‘saved’ Dotdash
It's almost four years since the livewire digital publisher Dotdash made a big splash by persuading its listed…
8 August 2025
RIP: Derk Sauer media pioneer in Russia
Derk Sauer, the Dutch-born journalist, publisher, and entrepreneur who shaped modern Russian media with Western-style newspapers and magazines…
7 August 2025
‘Definitive AI Forum’ for London
The CEOs of Reach Plc, Immediate Media, PA Media Group, The Independent, Hearst UK, Terrapin Events, Newsquest, FT…
7 August 2025
Why AI is just more opportunity for RELX
RELX is the 10-year name of a company whose origins as Reed and Elsevier date back to the…
1 August 2025
Skift bounces back
It's five years since we described Skift as "one of the world's sexiest B2B media brands". It seemed…
1 August 2025
MasterClass workshops for our AI event
“The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events”, organised by Flashes & Flames on 25 November, in London,…
31 July 2025
One year after Preqin, who’s next?
A year ago, the founders of the 21-year-old data provider Preqin were celebrating their £2.6bn ($3.2bn) acquisition by…
25 July 2025