Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman continues to offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities understand the name George Pulman well. He is considered something of an Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands continued to be a prolific news source for more than 150 year through the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned because of its reliability and trustworthiness. That which was authored by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be thought to be being true.
What people may well not 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 take part in the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise drawn to turned into a regular person in precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the significance 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 may otherwise are already restarted and forgotten.
Journalism was a task that required the most responsibility and was a career helped by great respect.
So in a today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to remember fondly the values of a single of 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, who’s the actual managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly uphold precisely the same values of George Pulman and it is open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize has created donations in the past 1 year 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.
Of late the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of your series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed throughout the West Country to aid enlighten the younger generation in regards to the dangers of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its various forms, continues to be as relevant today in mere the same manner it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It has a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make modern society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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