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 understand the name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands remained a prolific news source for over 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned due to the reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was authored by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be thought to be being true.
What folks might not exactly know is George Pulman was also an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help you rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically have fun playing the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise interested in turned into a regular part of exactly the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the importance of building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many people West Country causes and concerns that could otherwise are already release and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the most responsibility and it was a job addressed with great respect.
So within an today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to remember fondly the values of just one in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of faith who built a regional media empire within the wake of the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is 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 and it is open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize has created donations during the past Twelve months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of the series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed over the West Country to aid enlighten young adults about the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its many forms, remains as relevant these days within the same way that it was when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great power to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make modern society an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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