Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for your Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your 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 your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands remained a prolific news source for upwards of 150 year during the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. That which was created by Pulman’s journalists might be thought to be being true.
What people might not exactly know is George Pulman have also been an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To aid rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play in the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise attracted to be a regular member 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 a lot of West Country causes and concerns that might otherwise are already cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the utmost responsibility and was an occupation helped by great respect.
So in an today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to recall the values of just one with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of religion who built a regional media empire within the wake with the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the present managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary will continue to uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman and it is open for nominations throughout the year.”
The bursary prize has made donations during the past 12 months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for that elderly and partially sighted.
Most recently the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of the number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
Countless leaflets and booklets are also distributed through the West Country to aid enlighten the younger generation concerning the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in every its great shape, remains to be as relevant in today’s world within exactly as it was when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make our universe a greater place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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