American author and newspaper reporter born (1975)
Charlie Savage
is an American author and newspaper reporter with
The New York Times
.
In 2007, when employed by
The Boston Globe
,
he was a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize. He writes about national security legal policy, including presidential power, surveillance, drone strikes, torture, secrecy, leak investigations, military commissions, war powers, and the U.S.
war on terrorism
prison at
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
.
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Life
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Born in
Fort Wayne, Indiana
, in 1975, Savage earned an undergraduate degree in English and American literature and language from
Harvard College
in 1998 and a
Master of Studies in Law
(MSL) in 2003 from
Yale Law School
, where he was a
Knight Foundation
journalism fellow.
Savage is believed to have written the first mainstream media story about the
Dark Side of the Rainbow
, the practice of listening to
Pink Floyd
's album
The Dark Side of the Moon
while watching the film
The Wizard of Oz
, in August 1995, while working as a college intern at
The Journal Gazette
in Fort Wayne.
[2]
[3]
He went on in 1999 to work as a staff writer for the
Miami Herald
, where, under the byline "Charles Savage", he covered local and state government
[4]
and occasionally reviewed movies.
[5]
He changed his byline to "Charlie Savage" when he moved to
The Boston Globe
'
s Washington Bureau in 2003 and kept it that way when he moved to the
Times
Washington Bureau in May 2008.
[6]
He is married to
Luiza Chwialkowska Savage
,
[7]
the editorial director of events for
Politico
[2]
and a commentator on Canadian political news programs. He has taught a seminar at Georgetown University on national security and the Constitution.
[8]
Savage won the
Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting
for a 2006 series of articles in the
Globe
about
Presidential Signing Statements
and their use
by the Bush administration
as part of a broader effort to expand executive power.
[9]
Those articles also won the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency
[10]
and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.
[11]
In 2007, Savage published a book about the Bush administration's expansion of executive power entitled
Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency & the Subversion of American Democracy
. The
Constitution Project
awarded the book its first Award for Constitutional Commentary.
[12]
It also won the
New York Public Library
's
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism
[13]
and the
National Council of Teachers of English
's
George Orwell Award
for Distinguished Contributions to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.
[14]
In 2015, Savage published a second book, an investigative history of the
Obama administration
's national security legal policy, called
Power Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency.
While writing the book, he was a
Woodrow Wilson Center
Public Policy Fellow.
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Published work
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References
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- ^
Glenn Greenwald
(April 16, 2007),
"Profiles in Journalism"
,
Salon
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Phillips, Casey (November 22, 2012).
"
'Dark Side' synchs with 'Wizard'
"
.
Chattanooga Times Free-Press
.
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Savage, Charlie (2023-06-21).
"Pink Floyd, 'The Wizard of Oz' and Me"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
2023-06-21
.
- ^
"Miami Herald articles by Savage"
.
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"Charles Savage"
.
Metacritic
.
- ^
Media Log ? Charlie Savage to NYT
Archived
May 11, 2008, at the
Wayback Machine
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"Charlie Savage"
.
The New York Times
. Retrieved
February 7,
2014
.
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"GOVT-418 Dept Sem: National Security and the Constitution"
.
- ^
2007 Pulitzer Prize: Charlie Savage, National Reporting
The Boston Globe
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"Gerald R. Ford Foundation Journalism Prizes"
(PDF)
.
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"ABA Silver Gavel Awards 2007"
.
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"Constitution Project 2007 Constitutional Commentary Award"
.
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"Helen Bernstein Award Past Winners"
.
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"George Orwell Award recipients"
(PDF)
.
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"Woodrow Wilson Center: Charlie Savage"
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