to Protect Journalists from 1989 - 1994. During his tenure he built CPJ into a significant international force, instrumental in the release of imprisoned journalists around the globe. From 1995 to 2010, he produced and hosted over 300 programs for Digital Age (formerly known as "Telecommunications and the Information Revolution") on WNYE-TV, a TV show about the effect of the internet on media and society. Since 1977 he has taught First Amendment and Communications law at Yale, New York University and Fordham law schools and has authored over 200 articles in publications such as The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the Stanford Law Review. 'Columbia Journalism Review has listed James Goodale as one of 200 who shaped New York Media. He was named by Time magazine in 1974 as one of the rising leaders in the United States along with Joe Biden. Goodale was the recipient of the "Champion of the First Amendment Award," from the American Bar Association Forum in February 2014. He was recipient of the "George H.W. Bush '48 Lifetime of Leadership Award," Yale University, 2015. On May 5, 2015, PEN America awarded the 2015 PEN/Toni and James C. Goodale Freedom of Expression Courage Award to the French satirical weekly, [[Charlie Hebdo]]. Many of that magazines' editors had been killed in a homegrown jihadist terrorist attack. The award caused an international controversy as to whether it should have been given to Charlie Hebdo. Over 200 writers signed a protest against the award and many withdrew from the PEN dinner at which the award was given. In reply to attack on the award given by him and his wife, Goodale said, "the award is not for what is said. It's for the right to say it. In this case, journalists got killed for what they said. They should be honored, and my wife and I are extremely proud to do that." Education and early career Goodale was born July 27, 1933, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, a college professor, was the daughter of the Shakespearean scholar Oscar James Campbell Jr., who wrote The Readers Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. Goodale graduated from the Pomfret School and Yale University in 1955, which he attended on the William Brinckerhoff Jackson Scholarship and was a member of Elihu. At Yale, he played on the baseball and hockey teams. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago