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.
IMEX: ‘a licence to experiment’
The week after our Monetising B2B Information & Events, in London this month, the family-owned IMEX exhibitions celebrated…
29 May 2026
Book now: The Definitive AI Forum 2026
Bookings open today for The Definitive AI Forum for Media, Information & Events 2026 which takes place at…
28 May 2026
Another Murdoch takes New York
Fifty years after Rupert Murdoch acquired New York magazine in a fiercely contested deal - and exactly 35…
22 May 2026
What’s left for Business Insider?
Axel Springer, the family-owned, transatlantic news group, has reported its financials for 2025, the first full year since…
22 May 2026
Are PRAs threatened by AI?
This interview by Simon Middelboe, Chair, LegalTechTalk, and Flume, is adapted from Monetising B2B Information & Events, in London…
21 May 2026
“B2B is a fantastic industry, a great place to be. AI is an opportunity”
Our Monetising B2B Information & Events 2026, at London's historic Stationers' Hall this week was a sellout, with…
14 May 2026
How Hyve became a new company
CloserStill Media, of the UK, was acquired by funds of the private equity firms which also own Hyve…
14 May 2026
Emerald $1.9bn US trade show merger with Questex
US investment fund Apollo today (11 May) has agreed to acquire both the listed trade show group Emerald…
11 May 2026
CloserStill sold for 13-16x EBITDA
After a year of industry disappointment at the apparent failure of the world’s fourth largest trade show organizer,…
1 May 2026
RELX superstar Mark Kelsey bows out
Mark Kelsey, CEO of what is now the largest and most profitable division of RELX, is retiring after…
1 May 2026