In France, Émile Cohl was developing a form of animation similar to Blackton's, though Cohl used relatively crude stick figures rather than Blackton's ambitious newspaper-style cartoons.
In 1984, when a small but ambitious British newspaper invited him to design its ads, he had to be talked into it.
It is a nice irony that Robert Redford, 36 years after "All the President's Men," is playing a man being relentlessly pursued by an ambitious young newspaper reporter, whose revelations look set to ruin his life, and perhaps condemn him to a very long stay in a federal penitentiary.
Bo Bergman, 73, who lives a technology-free life in the tiny village of Simlångsdalen, sent his ambitious requests to the newspaper Hallands-Posten last week.
But since 1995, a series of owners and managers has chipped away at Newsday's news budget and its mission, turning it into something smaller, more local and, in many ways, less ambitious — a good regional newspaper.
How la-di-da it all seems now, in this dark age for newspapers: how ambitious, how elitist, how blind to those words by Rupert Murdoch that no newspaper ever went bust by underestimating public taste.
Though the main focus is on newspapers, this ambitious play, from the troupe Bone Orchard, also puts television news, talk radio and the blogosphere under its feverish scrutiny.
It's an adaptation of a novel by Tagore, set in Calcutta in the late nineteenth century and centered on the home of an ambitious, liberal-minded, and fearless newspaper publisher named Bhupati (Sailen Mukherjee), who, in his devotion to journalism and politics, neglects his sensitive-souled, poetically inclined wife, Charulata (Madhabi Mukherjee).
Across the pond in Canada, we're told La Presse and The Toronto Star are leading an ambitious plan to reimagine the newspaper for the digital age.
NEW YORK -- On Monday morning, 16 reporters at the Charleston-based Post and Courier newspaper began an ambitious assignment: Get all 170 state lawmakers to say whether they believe the Confederate flag should be removed from South Carolina's statehouse grounds.
