Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for your Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman continues to offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands continued to be a prolific news source for upwards of 150 year through the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned because of its reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was provided by Pulman’s journalists might be regarded as being true.
What folks may well not know is George Pulman has also been an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To assist rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically take part in the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise fascinated by turn into a regular person in precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the value 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 might otherwise have already been restarted and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the utmost responsibility and was a job given great respect.
So in the today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to can remember the values of a single with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of religion who built a regional media empire from the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is 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 it is open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize has produced donations in the past Yr on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Lately the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of your series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
A huge selection of leaflets and booklets have also been distributed over the West Country to help you enlighten the younger generation concerning the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its various forms, remains as relevant in today’s world in just the same manner it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great chance to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – will make society an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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