Colin Morrison is founder of Flashes & Flames: The Global Media Business Weekly, which began as a blog in 2011 and became a subscription newsletter in 2020. It formed a strategic alliance with PA Media Group (formerly the Press Association) in 2021.

Flashes & Flames is widely read by CEOs, senior executives and entrepreneurs in the media, digital, business information and events industries, principally in the UK/Europe, the US and AsiaPacific.

In 2025, Flashes & Flames was awarded a Warrant by the 600-year-old Worshipful Company of Stationers & Newspaper Makers (the Stationers’ Company, the UK’s historic pioneer of copyright legislation). The Warrant was in recognition of its “excellence” as a media industry commentator.

It is presenting the “Monetising B2B” conference in London on 20 May 2025, with the participation of major companies including RELX, The Economist, Financial Times, Informa, Business of Fashion, and Clarion Events.

Press Gazette started in 1965 as a trade journal for journalists and editors across the UK but has evolved into an online source for media leaders covering all sectors of the global news and media industries, from the national and regional press (both in print and online) to radio, TV, digital, B2B and consumer magazines. It also covers media law and media technology.

As well as all the essential news, Press Gazette’s content pillars include audience and business data, tech platforms and their relationships with publishers, interviews with media leaders and others who are working to create a sustainable future for media, and the weekly podcast The Future of Media Explained. Press Gazette reaches more than 350,000 readers a month via pressgazette.co.uk, and a further 20,000 through its daily and weekly newsletters.

Press Gazette’s events include the British Journalism Awards, which have been running for 11 years and are the only event to cover every sector of the UK news industry. More recently it has launched the Future of Media Technology Conference and Awards, the Media 100 Networking event for C-level decision makers as well as the Future of Media Trends roundtables.

In 2022 Press Gazette’s events attracted more than 1,000 senior industry leaders across leadership, operations, product, revenue, marketing, digital, content, data, audience insight and technology at every major publisher and media group across the UK.