Charles Pappas is the Captain Ahab/Mr. Peabody of the exhibition industry. He has spent years sleuthing out not just the economic impact but also the cultural imprint of trade fairs. Charles has covered the expo industry for Exhibitor magazine since 2002 and is the industry’s de facto historian. His “white whale” is a photo of Bayer AG exhibiting heroin, its trademarked morphine surrogate and cough suppressant, at a trade show.
Previously, he was the investigative reporter for Yahoo Internet Life, a columnist for Alexa.com, and a technology writer for Small Office Computing, Home Office Computing, and other publications. In the last few years his articles have won numerous national/regional ASBPE, MAGGIE, and TABBI awards. His previous book, It’s a Bitter Little World, is an ode to film noir language.