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 good causes.
Many West Country communities be aware of name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands always been a prolific news source for upwards of 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. That which was published by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be regarded as being true.
What folks might not know is George Pulman was also an ongoing 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 with a Sunday morning. There he went on the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise attracted to become a regular person in precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he advocated the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to numerous West Country causes and concerns which may otherwise have been put aside and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a profession treated with great respect.
So within an today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to recall the values of a single of the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of religion who built a regional media empire from the wake from 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 continues to uphold the same values of George Pulman which is open for nominations throughout the year.”
The bursary prize has created donations in the past 1 year to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and also the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of a number 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 seemed to be distributed through the West Country to assist enlighten the younger generation in regards to the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its many forms, is still as relevant today in just the same manner it turned out when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great power to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make society an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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