Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for your Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to 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 remained an abundant news source more than 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 could be viewed as being true.
What people may not know is the fact that George Pulman seemed to be a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically have fun playing the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise attracted to turn into a regular member of the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the value of building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many people West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise have already been cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a profession addressed with great respect.
So in a today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s can remember the values of one from the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male 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 present managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary will continue to uphold the identical values of George Pulman and is open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize makes donations costs 1 year for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and also the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.
Most recently the Pulman’s Award helps 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 within the community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed over the West Country to aid enlighten the younger generation about the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its many forms, continues to be as relevant these days in mere exactly as it was when George Pulman was alive.
It features a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make modern society a greater place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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