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Born 1975
Born and raised in Fort Wayne: Charlie Savage was born in Fort Wayne in 1975 and grew up here. He graduated from Harvard College in 1998, reported for the Miami Herald, and joined the Boston Globe's Washington bureau in 2003, covering national security and legal policy in the years after the September 11 attacks. His subject became the growth of presidential power, and on it he won the profession's highest honor while still in his early thirties: the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, for his 2006 Globe series on presidential signing statements and the Bush administration's use of them to claim the power to set aside parts of laws Congress had passed.
He moved to the New York Times Washington bureau in 2008 and has covered the same ground there since — detention, surveillance, war powers and the courts. He took a master of studies in law at Yale Law School as a Knight Foundation journalism fellow. His two books, Takeover (2007), on the Bush-Cheney expansion of executive power, and Power Wars (2015), on national-security lawmaking inside the Obama administration, are standard accounts of their subjects.
Sources:
- Yale Law School, speaker biography — "Originally from Fort Wayne, Ind."; the Harvard and Yale credentials; the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
- Wikipedia, "Charlie Savage (journalist)" — the 1975 Fort Wayne birth; the Globe signing-statement series and the 2008 move to the Times.