Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly on the offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities understand the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands always been a prolific news source for upwards of 150 year during the entire 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 might be thought to be being true.
What people might not exactly know is that George Pulman has also been an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help you rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically have fun playing the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who was simply likewise drawn to turn into a regular member of precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many people West Country causes and concerns that might otherwise have already been cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism would have been a task that required the absolute maximum responsibility and it was a career helped by great respect.
So in the today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to recall the values of 1 in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of faith who built a regional media empire in the wake from the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that 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 and is also open for nominations throughout every season.”
The bursary prize has created donations in the past Yr on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Lately the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of your group of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses designed to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets have also been distributed across the West Country to help enlighten young people in regards to the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in every its many forms, continues to be as relevant today in mere exactly as it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make our universe a greater place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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