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.
Time for Future’s big plan?
Jon Steinberg steps down from the board of UK-based magazines-to-digital Future Plc this weekend and Kevin Li Ying…
28 March 2025
Is this the future of trade shows?
Jonathan Weiner is the science graduate who turned down a lucrative first job at his university which -…
28 March 2025
Apple News ‘catalyst’ set for takeoff
US and UK news and magazine-centric publishers can’t believe their luck in signing up to Apple News+. The…
21 March 2025
How Semafor events fund global news
It's less than three years since former Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith and journalist Ben Smith (ex BuzzFeed,…
21 March 2025
Ziff Davis buys theSkimm newsletters
The listed company Ziff Davis has acquired the millennial women-focused newsletter company theSkimm. It will join Ziff's Everyday…
20 March 2025
A timely reminder: Monetising B2B, the event of 2025
Here’s the confirmed lineup of people and companies for our Monetising B2B conference in London on 20 May.…
20 March 2025
How Mumsnet at 25 is really just beginning
In two weeks, it will be the 25th anniversary of the launch of parenting site Mumsnet, in the early…
14 March 2025
How I do it: Leon Saunders Calvert, The Economist
Leon Saunders Calvert is president and managing director of Economist Intelligence, the business information arm of The Economist…
14 March 2025
JCL will be ‘powerhouse global M&A platform’
Investment bankers, who make their profits by quietly lubricating the wheels of M&A, are not supposed to make…
14 March 2025
What’s happened to New Scientist?
Four years ago this month, the UK’s Daily Mail Group (DMGT) was feeling bullish. While executives quietly worked…
7 March 2025