[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.

[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.

[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.