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.
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
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