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.
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
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