Charlie Savage | |
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 Savage in 2015 | |
| Born | Charles Savage 1975 (age 49–50) Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Yale University |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse | Luiza Savage |
| Children | 2[1][2] |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting |
Charles Savage is an American author and newspaper reporter withThe New York Times. In 2007, while employed byThe 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 atGuantanamo Bay, Cuba.[3]
Born inFort Wayne, Indiana, in 1975, Savage earned an undergraduate degree in English and American literature and language fromHarvard College in 1998.
He earned aMaster of Studies in Law (MSL) in 2003 fromYale Law School, where he was aKnight Foundation journalism fellow.[4][1]
Savage is believed to have written the first mainstream media story about theDark Side of the Rainbow, the practice of listening toPink Floyd's albumThe Dark Side of the Moon while watching the filmThe Wizard of Oz, in August 1995, while working as a college intern atThe Journal Gazette in Fort Wayne.[5][6] He went on in 1999 to work as a staff writer for theMiami Herald, where, under the byline "Charles Savage", he covered local and state government[7] and occasionally reviewed movies.[8] He changed his byline to "Charlie Savage" when he moved toThe Boston Globe's Washington Bureau in 2003 and kept it that way when he moved to theTimes Washington Bureau in May 2008.[9]
He is married toLuiza Chwialkowska Savage,[10] the editorial director of events forPolitico[2] and a commentator on Canadian political news programs. He has taught a seminar at Georgetown University on national security and the Constitution.[11]
Savage won thePulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a 2006 series of articles in theGlobe aboutPresidential Signing Statements and their useby the Bush administration as part of a broader effort to expand executive power.[12] Those articles also won the Gerald R. Ford Foundation Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency[13] and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award.[14]
In 2007, Savage published a book about the Bush administration's expansion of executive power entitledTakeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency & the Subversion of American Democracy. TheConstitution Project awarded the book its first Award for Constitutional Commentary.[15] It also won theNew York Public Library'sHelen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism[16] and theNational Council of Teachers of English'sGeorge Orwell Award for Distinguished Contributions to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.[17]
In 2015, Savage published a second book, an investigative history of theObama administration's national security legal policy, calledPower Wars: Inside Obama's Post-9/11 Presidency. While writing the book, he was aWoodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Fellow.[18]
Fellows who complete the course of study earn the degree of Master of Studies in Law (M.S.L.).
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