Charles Savage is a Washington correspondent for the Boston Globe. He covers the Supreme Court, the Department of Justice, and the Department of Homeland Security, with a focus on legal and policy issues related to the war on terrorism.

Savage was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in 1975. He earned an undergraduate degree in English from Harvard College in 1998, then began his journalism career as a government and politics reporter for the Miami Herald. In 2002-03, Savage was a Knight Foundation journalism fellow at Yale Law School, where he earned a master's degree. He joined the Washington bureau of the Globe in October 2003.

Savage is currently on book leave writing about presidential power. His work is scheduled to be published by Little Brown in the Fall of 2007. He lives in Washington with his wife, Luiza Ch. Savage, the US correspondent for the Canadian newsweekly magazine Maclean's, and their one-year-old son, Will.