Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly on the offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities be aware of name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands always been a prolific news source for upwards of 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for its reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was published by Pulman’s journalists could be thought to be being true.
Exactly who may not know is the fact that George Pulman have also been an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help you rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play in the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who was simply likewise attracted to be a regular part of the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the need for 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 restarted and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the most responsibility and it was a career given great respect.
So within an today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to remember the values of just one of the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of religion who built a regional media empire in the wake of 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 will continue to uphold the same values of George Pulman and is open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize makes donations during the past 1 year for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Most recently the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of the number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
Countless leaflets and booklets have been distributed across the West Country to help you enlighten young adults in regards to the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its many forms, is still as relevant in today’s world in mere the same way that it was when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make our universe an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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