Charles Pelton

Former WaPo Exec Behind Salons Flap Back Pushing Corporate-Sponsored Events

Zachary Roth | January 12, 2010, 3:21PM

The former Washington Post Company executive who left amid controversy over a plan to hold corporate-sponsored "salons" is doubling down on his bid to get newsrooms more involved in profit-making ventures.

Charles Pelton resigned in September as the Post Company's general manager of events and conferences, after Politico reported on an initiative that would have brought together Post reporters, administration officials, lawmakers, and corporate lobbyists for off-the-record discussions of policy issues -- paid for by the attending corporations -- at the home of Post publisher Katharine Weymouth. (We followed up with our own report on Atlantic Media's series of similar events.)

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