Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly on the offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands always been an abundant news source for more than 150 year throughout the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. What was published by Pulman’s journalists could be considered as being true.
What folks may not know is that George Pulman was also a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically take part in the church organ over a Sunday morning. There he went on the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise interested in be a regular an affiliate precisely 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 people West Country causes and concerns which may otherwise happen to be put aside and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the maximum responsibility and was a job addressed with great respect.
So in a today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to can remember the values of just one with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A guy of faith who built a regional media empire in 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 is constantly on the uphold precisely the same values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize has produced donations world food prices 12 months on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the creation of new talking newspapers and recorded books for that elderly and partially sighted.
Lately the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of your compilation of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
A huge selection of leaflets and booklets have also been distributed across the West Country to help you enlighten young adults concerning the hazards of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its many forms, remains to be as relevant today within exactly as it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great power to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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