Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for that Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities know 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 stayed a prolific news source more than 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for its reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was published by Pulman’s journalists may be viewed as being true.
What people may well not know is that George Pulman was also a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically take part in the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise fascinated by become a regular person in exactly the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the value 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 are already restarted and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the most responsibility and it was a job given great respect.
So in the today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s can remember the values of one in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of religion who built a regional media empire within the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that’s the current managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations throughout every season.”
The bursary prize has produced donations during the past Yr on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of the series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses designed to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
Countless leaflets and booklets have also been distributed across the West Country to help you enlighten the younger generation concerning the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its great shape, is still as relevant in today’s world in only the same way that it was when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – will make society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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