Charlie Savage

From dKosopedia

Category: Media figures

Charlie Savage is a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the Boston Globe. His work revealed that President Bush often used Signing Statements to assert his "right" to bypass or ignore provisions of new laws.

Background

Savage was born in Fort Wayne, Ind., and got his start in journalism at age 9 as a newspaper boy delivering the afternoon edition of the Fort Wayne News-Sentinel. His first experience inside a newsroom came in high school, when he worked as a clerk in the sports department of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.

After earning an undergraduate degree in English from Harvard College in 1998, he got a job as a reporter for the Miami Herald. In 2003, Savage earned a master's degree as a Knight Foundation journalism fellow at Yale Law School. That October, he joined the Washington bureau of the Globe.

Savage recently returned from a book leave writing about presidential power. The book, "Takeover," is scheduled to be published by Little Brown this fall.

External Links

• Globe wins Pulitzer Prize for series on Bush efforts to expand presidential power, April 16, 2007.
• Charlie Savage wins the Pulitzer - DailyKos article
• Interview with Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com, April 26, 2007.