Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities understand the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands always been a prolific news source for over 150 year throughout the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned due to the reliability and trustworthiness. What was provided by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be regarded as being true.
What people might not exactly know is always that George Pulman has also been a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To assist rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically have fun playing the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise interested in become a regular person in the identical Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise have been restarted and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a profession treated with great respect.
So within an today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to recall the values of just one in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of faith who built a regional media empire inside the wake from the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who’s the existing 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 created donations in the past 12 months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the creation of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Lately the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of an group 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 have been distributed across the West Country to help enlighten the younger generation in regards to the hazards of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its great shape, remains to be as relevant in today’s world within the same way that it was when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great chance to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make our society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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