Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly on the offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of an Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands stayed an abundant news source more than 150 year during the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was created by Pulman’s journalists may be considered as being true.
What individuals may well not know is the fact that George Pulman was also a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To aid rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he went on the meet and marry his young wife, who was simply likewise drawn to be a regular person in precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he advocated the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to a lot of West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise are already restarted and forgotten.
Journalism was a task that required the utmost responsibility and was a job addressed with great respect.
So in the today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to remember the values of just one in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A person of faith who built a regional media empire from the wake from the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is the current managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary will continue to uphold precisely the same values of George Pulman which is open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize makes donations in the past 12 months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and also the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award helps 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 within the community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed throughout the West Country to help enlighten young adults about the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its many forms, remains to be as relevant today in mere the same way that it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make our society a much better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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