Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for that Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman continues to offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities have in mind the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands continued to be an abundant news source more than 150 year through the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for its reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was published by Pulman’s journalists could be thought to be being true.
Exactly who might not know is the fact that George Pulman have 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 play the church organ over a Sunday morning. There he went on the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise interested in turn into a regular part of precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to numerous West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise are already put aside and forgotten.
Journalism would have been a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a job given great respect.
So in a today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to recall the values of one with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A guy of religion who built a regional media empire within the wake with the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is the current managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly on the uphold the same values of George Pulman and it is open for nominations throughout every season.”
The bursary prize has created donations during the past 12 months on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the creation of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.
Most recently the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of an number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed through the West Country to assist enlighten young adults about the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its great shape, remains to be as relevant these days within exactly as it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great chance to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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