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.
Can Observer be a model weekend paper?
Tortoise Media, the UK-based, seven-year-old "slow news" startup - which has morphed into a lively podcast producer -…
2 May 2025
Flare gets B2B media into data subs
At a time when AI threatens to slash the value of almost all information except proprietary content, a…
2 May 2025
Flashes & Flames merges with Media Voices
Here’s our own news. Flashes & Flames and Media Voices, of the UK, are coming together in a…
2 May 2025
How I do it: William Jefferson Black, Transaction Advisors
The Chicago-based William Jefferson Black is co-founder and chair of the Transaction Advisors Institute. He had been an…
1 May 2025
Last chance to book for Monetising B2B
Registrations for our Monetising B2B Information & Events conference close on Monday 5 May. The packed one-day conference,…
1 May 2025
Has Delinian already got its money back?
Here's a heartwarming story. Delinian, the UK private equity-owned company, which bought some 75% of the former Euromoney…
25 April 2025
How I do it: Lisa Hannant, Clarion Events
Lisa Hannant is group CEO of the London-based, Blackstone pe-owned Clarion Events, the world's third largest trade show…
25 April 2025
How Immediate got digital
It’s eight years since Hubert Burda Media, of Germany, paid £270mn (5-6x EBITDA) to acquire the London-based Immediate…
18 April 2025
China: a huge shadow over trade shows
The economic upheaval of recent weeks, caused by the US government’s spate of tariffs on international trade, has…
18 April 2025
How I do it: Simon Moores, Benchmark PRA
Simon Moores is founder and executive chair of the UK-based Benchmark Mineral Intelligence which claims to be the…
17 April 2025