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.
How Bauer is moving on from magazines
Bauer is the 151-year-old, family-owned media group whose distinctiveness infuriates its rivals. In the 1980s, when it started…
1 May 2026
Diller’s IAC becomes People Inc
This is the letter sent to shareholders this week by IAC founder-chair Barry Diller: Dear Shareholders, IAC is…
29 April 2026
How tech media is fighting for the future
Informa TechTarget, the Nasdaq-listed B2B tech information and events company, 57% owned by Informa, may finally be gaining…
24 April 2026
Telegraph becomes Axel Springer flagship
30 June update: Axel Springer, the $3bn Berlin-based, transatlantic news group and Europe’s largest news publisher, has now…
17 April 2026
Mark Allen B2B in a spin
Mark Allen Group (MAG), the privately-owned, UK-based B2B, has recorded an increase in revenue but a fall in…
17 April 2026
Will USA Today sell Newsquest?
USA Today Inc, the largest newspaper publisher in the US (by total daily circulation), may be considering the…
10 April 2026
Who will pay $1.7bn for CloserStill trade shows?
May 1: CloserStill has been acquired by Searchlight Capital (co-owners of Hyve Group) at a valuation of $1.73bn…
3 April 2026
Broadsheet takes London
Just six months after its September 2025 launch in London, the Australia-based Broadsheet claims some 100,000 monthly uniques…
2 April 2026
What now for UK’s Daily Mail?
The Daily Mail Group (DMGT) lost the Telegraph Media Group because the UK’s legacy regulation of press ownership…
27 March 2026
Monetising B2B 2026: selling fast
There are fewer than 10% tickets left for our Monetising B2B Information & Events 2026, in London on…
26 March 2026