Savodnik had several different types of media related jobs, like printing, making digital movies, and creating independent works. At the very start of his career, he was covering politics through the local channels and even campaigns in Washington, D.C. As a young man, he worked at a political news editing department of The Hill. Then his reporting travels included the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and even most of the U.S. Finally, in 2013, Basic Books released his book, “The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, ” which details Oswald’s period in the USSR preceding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Few years later, he started up Stateless Film, a filmmaking crew, which made documentaries in the short video form plus “shortreals, ” which are brief films about the life of people all over the world. Such shorts were featured through Cond Nast Entertainment and other media companies like TechCrunch Engadget The Guardian, amongst others; some of these videos were viral on the web and nominated for Webby Award. And, he has worked on several podcasts, and among his projects was the work for Wondery. Savodnik was reporting on Democratic politics in entertainment and culture during 2020, mostly for Vanity Fair, until he decided to shift towards the independent/Substack-era media landscape by joining The Free Press, a publication that was originally part of Common Sense, the initiative launched by Bari Weiss.
At The Free Press he holds the position of senior writer and editor and besides, the team produces reported and analytical works on diverse topics ranging from politics in America, changes in culture, the dynamics within the Democratic Party, Israel-related problems, personal essays (for instance, sending a child to camp), and larger questions of political self-identification and the occurrence of the so-called political divide. In the public, he mentioned the desire to understand motivations of the voters and he spoke on issues like political homelessness, and being against extreme partisanship.
Savodnik graduated in political science and Classical Studies from Middlebury College with bachelor’s degree and in addition he got his master’s from the University of Chicago. Savodnik has resided and made himself at home in different cities such as New York, Washington D.C. Moscow Colombo, and in other regions of Los Angeles including but not limited to Pasadena. Many of his stories include firsthand reporting and reflections on history, psychology, and the fractures in the American life at large.
Recent pieces in The Free Press where he contributed range from topics on left-wing movements in Democratic primaries, to discussions about Israel within the party, personal and cultural observations. His previous work also consists of some autobiographical pieces, like a Guardian article that dealt with his father’s decline due to Alzheimer’s. Generally speaking, Savodnik’s work across platforms is the reflection of his experience on the international level, the transition of print magazine journalism to digital publishing and independent media in the recent years as well as an ongoing, intense analysis of matters for politics and identity.
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