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.
Looking back on “An excellent event” and to ‘Monetising B2B’ in 2026
Whether or not you were able to attend the Flashes & Flames Monetising B2B conference in London last…
19 June 2025
‘Trust in news’ is stable but X soars
The 2025 edition of the excellent Digital News Report has been published by the Reuters Institute and Oxford…
17 June 2025
How UK’s Indy was digitally transformed in 10 years
Ten years ago, Lord (Evgeny) Lebedev’s dreams of owning a successful UK media group seemed to be crashing…
13 June 2025
What 1440 means to all media
It’s a never-ending challenge for established news media, seeking to compete with disrupters while defending their still-profitable traditional…
13 June 2025
A revival or has print never really gone away?
MediaVoices has produced a sparky new report “Inside the Print Revival”, looking at why print magazines are making headlines…
12 June 2025
Flashback to 2023: Haymarket bounces back
https://flashesandflames.com/2023/09/15/how-haymarket-surprised-us-again/... Premium content This content is exclusive to Flashes & Flames members. You can join our membership…
12 June 2025
How FT became an events leader
Live events are hot diversification for media companies. Axel Springer’s US-based Business Insider tried to soften the blow…
6 June 2025
How lawyer fest is racing to £45mn
Some industry leaders believe that the world's most successful trade shows (having rebounded strongly post-pandemic) may continue (more…
6 June 2025
Save the date: Monetising B2B in 2026
The second edition of our ‘Monetising B2B Information & Events’ conference has now been confirmed as Wednesday 13…
5 June 2025
Can the Telegraph conquer the world?
The US-owned RedBird Capital will soon become the majority owner of the UK's Telegraph Media Group, along with…
30 May 2025