Charlie Savage

reporter, Boston Globe, 2007 Pulitzer Prize

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 masters 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. His articles in the *Boston Globe* received the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the American Bar Associations Silver Gavel Award, and the Gerald R. Ford Prize for Distinguished Reporting on the Presidency. Savages 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 Librarys Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism.