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.
UK news leader starts the fight back
The new CEOs of Future and Reach may be watching each other closely. Not because what are, respectively,…
25 July 2025
How Hearst will change
A+E Global Media - the 40-year-old US TV network of Lifetime, History Channel, Biography and Vice TV -…
18 July 2025
UK consultant launches AI-powered content service
FT Strategies, the media consulting arm of the Financial Times, this week announced the launch of NewsCaaS which…
17 July 2025
How to build a £100mn data business
It's 13 years since Tom Seaman, a former B2B journalist who had been writing about the commercial fishing…
11 July 2025
Major new AI event in London
Flashes & Flames this week announces a major new event to assess the commercial, operational and competitive impact…
10 July 2025
RIP Dominic Proctor: ad industry legend
Dominic Proctor, a leading figure in the development of global media and advertising agencies and one of the…
10 July 2025
What next for Emerald et al?
You might be forgiven for wondering why private equity investors favour trade shows much more than their counterparts…
4 July 2025
The crowded legacy of Felix Dennis
It’s 11 years since the premature death of Felix Dennis, one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs in…
3 July 2025
How social networks can propel B2B
Thirteen years ago, the launch of Industry Dive helped to reverse the reputation and revenue shrinkage of B2B…
27 June 2025
Why The Economist is a role model
The Economist is a different kind of weekly magazine. Not just because its own editors insist on calling…
20 June 2025