Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for that Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly offer sponsorship to get affordable causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He is considered something of the 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 published by Pulman’s journalists might be regarded as being true.
What people may well not know is George Pulman seemed to be an ongoing 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 with a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise fascinated by turn into a regular part of the identical Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many West Country causes and concerns which may otherwise happen to be release and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the maximum responsibility and it was a job helped by great respect.
So in a today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to recall the values of 1 of the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A guy of faith who built a regional media empire within the wake with the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who’s the present managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly on the uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman which is open for nominations throughout the year.”
The bursary prize makes donations world food prices Twelve months on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of the series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built 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 you enlighten young people regarding the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its various forms, is still as relevant today within the same way that it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.
It has a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make our universe an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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