Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for that Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman continues to offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities have in mind the name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands remained an abundant news source for more than 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned because of its reliability and trustworthiness. What was authored by Pulman’s journalists might be regarded as being true.
What folks may not know is the fact that George Pulman has also been a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play in the church organ over a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise attracted to be a regular person in the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the need for 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 that could otherwise have been restarted and forgotten.
Journalism was a task that required the utmost responsibility and was a job helped by great respect.
So in an today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to can remember the values of just one in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of religion who built a regional media empire inside the wake in 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 will continue to uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman and is open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize has created donations in the past 12 months to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of the series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back from the community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets have also been distributed over the West Country to assist enlighten the younger generation concerning the dangers of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its various forms, continues to be as relevant these days in just the same manner it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great chance to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – will make society a much better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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