Colin Morrison
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Colin Morrison is founder of Flashes & Flames: Global Media Business Weekly, which began as a blog and became a weekly newsletter in 2016.
Book now for The AI Forum 2026
Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, says “AI is the new digital” and who can doubt it? That’s…
2 July 2026
How Indy double act made it work
Independent Media, the UK-based digital news brand, is believed to have increased profit by 5-6% and EBITDA by…
26 June 2026
Why Paul Miller is CEO of ‘new’ Emerald
Paul Miller, the eight-year CEO of Questex, will be CEO of the combination with Emerald when the two…
25 June 2026
US science group buys UK-based events
The US-based Life Science Connect (LSC), which was last year acquired by private equity from its long-term family…
23 June 2026
The Lifestyle Media 40
Magazine publishers are still adapting to a world in which they no longer dominate lifestyle content. Large audiences…
19 June 2026
How UK news is winning in the US
UK businesses have long been accustomed to the temptations and traps of transatlantic expansion. Over many decades, successful…
12 June 2026
How (and why) Foster launched Arc
Arc Media Holdings is the six-year-old, UK-based, pe-owned B2B company founded by trade show veteran Simon Foster (ex…
11 June 2026
The Trade Show Big Bang. What’s next?
Hyve Group, the world's eighth largest exhibition organizer, is being acquired by Hellman & Friedman for $1.8bn (an…
4 June 2026
How FT Live completes ‘virtuous circle’ for news, data and events
At our recent Monetising B2B Information & Events 2026, Colin Morrison interviewed Orson Francescone, managing director of FT…
4 June 2026
How Hanson Wade paid off after all
A year after aborting a sale process, the Graphite private equity owner of the 18-year-old UK-based pharma events…
29 May 2026