Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for your Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands remained an abundant news source for over 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 authored by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be considered as being true.
What people might not know is always that George Pulman seemed to be 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 on the Sunday morning. There he went on the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise fascinated by become a regular an affiliate precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he advocated the significance 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 which may otherwise have been put aside and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the utmost responsibility and was a profession given great respect.
So within an today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to recall the values of one in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A person of religion who built a regional media empire within the wake of the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the existing 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 which is open for nominations throughout every season.”
The bursary prize has created donations in the past Twelve months towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of a compilation of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets are also distributed over the West Country to aid enlighten the younger generation concerning the dangers of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in every its great shape, is still as relevant these days in only exactly as it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It has a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make modern society a much better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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