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.
Will Montgomery buy the Telegraph?
David Montgomery, the veteran UK newspaper executive who is losing control of his listed local news group National…
3 January 2025
Mark Allen saves Estates Gazette
The £70mn-revenue Mark Allen Group (MAG), of the UK, is set to acquire the B2B magazine long known…
24 December 2024
2024: What next for Condé Nast?
This has been a big year for the Newhouse family whose US-based Advance group reportedly made a cool…
20 December 2024
The Year in Media 2024: 30 deepdives from Flashes & Flames
For your reading before, during or after the holiday season, we present The Year in Media 2024, our…
20 December 2024
How a legendary B2B brand just died
In an era of diversifying B2B brands, UK media people were stunned by the announcement last week that…
13 December 2024
Centaur Media breakup
This week's departure of Swag Mukerji, the CEO of Centaur Media for the past eight years, signals the…
12 December 2024
Informa on Nasdaq. What’s next?
Informa this week completed its acquisition of a 57% shareholding in the Nasdaq-listed TechTarget. The deal involved the…
6 December 2024
Will Future do it?
Future Plc, the UK-based, lifestyle media group, yesterday received a welcome boost from investors as its shares jumped…
6 December 2024
What Dotdash Meredith got wrong and right
Three years ago this week, the digital media group Dotdash acquired America’s largest magazines group Meredith for $2.7bn.…
29 November 2024
How London can be a hot market for newsletters
It’s all happening in London. In the month when the 197-year-old, perennially-lossmaking Evening Standard became a weekly (yes),…
29 November 2024