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Savage jumps to the head of the class

By Mark Obbie

That didn't take long. Charlie Savage's first New York Times byline is played above the fold on A1, and as the lead on the Web's "today's paper" page. He shares a byline with Robert Pear, but still it's clear: he's getting a lotta love from the editors since moving his D.C.-based Pulitzer-winning legal-affairs show from the Boston Globe to the mother ship. The story -- on the Bush administration's unusual move to avoid the "midnight rules" phenomenon in the final months of its term -- has the added benefit of jabbing a finger in the eye of the Washington Post, for which this sort of story is bread and butter.

Full post as published by Lawbeat on May 31, 2008 (boomark / email).