Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman continues to offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities have in mind the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of an Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands remained an abundant news source more than 150 year during the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned because of its reliability and trustworthiness. That which was published by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be thought to be being true.
What folks may well not know is that George Pulman has also been a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically have fun playing the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise fascinated by turned into a regular person in precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he advocated the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to a lot of West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise have been cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism was a task that required the most responsibility and was a profession helped by great respect.
So in an today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to recall the values of just one with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of faith who built a regional media empire in the wake with the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who’s the actual managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly on the uphold the identical values of George Pulman which is open for nominations throughout every season.”
The bursary prize has made donations costs 12 months to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of the number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
Countless leaflets and booklets have been distributed over the West Country to help enlighten the younger generation concerning the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in every its great shape, is still as relevant nowadays in mere the same way that it turned out when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make modern society a greater place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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