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Happy New Year!
It’s been another year of our “How I do it” interviews. Many point the way to the things we might expect in 2024. Click on the quote-links below to read (or re-read) the tips and tricks of…
22 December 2023
6 minute read
The Year in Media 2023
Welcome to "The Year in Media 2023", our eBook of the year's 33 best-read deepdives from Flashes & Flames. I hope you will enjoy reading my review of 2023 and the analyses of some of the…
22 December 2023
1 minute read
Where next for Condé Nast?
These are strange times at Condé Nast. The world's shiniest magazine publisher has distinctively blended seemingly free-spending on photoshoots, parties and personalities with the financial…
15 December 2023
13 minute read
How can Mail Online get subs?
Mail Online, the digital news platform branded as the "Daily Mail" outside the UK, is considering establishing a “freemium” paywall model for some of its content from early next year. The…
15 December 2023
4 minute read
Why BuzzFeed was never going to make it
With the joy of 20:20 hindsight, you can identify the seeds of what went wrong at BuzzFeed all the way back in 2014 – eight years after its launch by Jonah Peretti. In August of that year,…
14 December 2023
6 minute read
How Future will streamline to ‘hero brands’
Jon Steinberg’s first nine months in the UK as CEO of Future Plc have been a baptism of fire. The UK-listed transatlantic magazine-media group yesterday (Thursday 7 Nov) reported its results…
8 December 2023
5 minute read
What Thompson’s CNN means to media
Mark Thompson, the new CEO of CNN, is the former BBC leader, who presided over the spellbinding transformation of the New York Times. In eight years, the quietly-spoken Brit increased…
8 December 2023
8 minute read
Trying to get the AI balance right…
Since the last Flashes & Flames piece on AI, perhaps the biggest AI story of the year broke. Sam Altman, founder and CEO of ChatGPT maker OpenAI was ousted by his board, before making a…
7 December 2023
5 minute read
When next for Clarion Events?
The world’s trade show companies are starting to enjoy the post-pandemic rebound. After more than two years of investor worries about whether B2B exhibitions would recapture their longtime…
1 December 2023
5 minute read
UK Telegraph in a spin
Britain’s Telegraph Media Group (TMG) is the focus of intense political activity as a result of a provisional agreement to sell the 168-year-old Daily Telegraph to Abu Dhabi-backed RedBird IMI…
1 December 2023
6 minute read
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