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.
Boats Group 2x value in 4 years
The US-based Boats Group (described as the global marine industry’s largest search engine) was this month acquired by…
18 December 2025
Book now for Monetising B2B Information & Events in 2026…
Flashes & Flames is proud to announce the return of Monetising B2B Information & Events in 2026. The…
18 December 2025
What next for Questex?
It’s eight months since President Trump declared his Liberation Day wave of tariffs or sanctions on many US…
12 December 2025
How AI energizes Independent
Christian Broughton is CEO (and a former editor-in-chief) of The Independent, in London. The former UK broadsheet newspaper…
11 December 2025
Future and the tale of two media groups
Stock markets are not always easy to understand. That’s what Kevin Li Ying, CEO of Future Plc, might…
5 December 2025
Transformed Nineteen readies 2027 sale
Nineteen Group, the private equity-owned UK-based trade show group which made its first recent profit only in 2023,…
5 December 2025
‘AI just part of disruption’: FT’s Jon Slade
Jon Slade was appointed CEO of the Nikkei-owned Financial Times in July this year, succeeding John Ridding, after…
4 December 2025
Charlie Kerr gets back to work
S & P Global this week completed its $1.8bn acquisition of London-based financial data provider With Intelligence. The…
28 November 2025
Aussie trade show creator x3 in four years
The Australian trade show group National Media was this month named as the 62nd fastest growing company in…
21 November 2025
Daily Mail Group agrees to buy Telegraph
The Daily Mail publisher, the privately-owned Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT), has signed an agreement with RedBird IMI to acquire…
21 November 2025