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Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalist Charlie Savage is a Washington
correspondent for the New York Times. A
native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Savage graduated
summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1998 and
later earned a master’s degree from Yale Law School
while on a Knight Foundation journalism fellowship.
He began his career as a local government and
politics reporter for the Miami Herald, and
covered national legal affairs for the Boston
Globe from 2003 to 2008 before moving to the
Times. Savage lives in Washington, D.C., with
his wife, the journalist Luiza Ch. Savage of
Maclean’s Magazine, and their son, Will. |
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Savage’s work on the Bush-Cheney
administration’s efforts to expand presidential
power has been widely recognized. His articles
in the Boston Globe received the
Pulitzer Prize
for National Reporting, the American Bar
Association’s
Silver Gavel Award, and the
Gerald
R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the
Presidency. Savage’s book about the growth of
executive power, Takeover, was named one of the
best books of 2007 by both Slate and Esquire.
The book also received the
Award for
Constitutional Commentary by the bipartisan
Constitution Project and the New York Public
Library’s
Helen Bernstein Book Award for
Excellence in Journalism.
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