NEW YORK: Top communications advisers have more access to high-level meetings and top decision-makers in the federal government than they do in the corporate world, former White House press secretary Dana Perino said on Tuesday.

Perino explained that “the press secretary has a seat at the table in every meeting” at the White House, with the exception of high-level security discussions, during a panel discussion at the Ethisphere Institute's Best Practices in Ethics conference.

Perino added that US corporations are ...