Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the 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 understand the name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands always been a prolific 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. What was created by Pulman’s journalists might be viewed as being true.
Exactly who may well not know is that George Pulman have also been a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise interested in be a regular an affiliate precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the value of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise have been release and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the most responsibility and it was an occupation helped by great respect.
So in a today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to recall the values of just one from the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A guy of religion who built a regional media empire from the wake from the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the present managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly uphold precisely the same values of George Pulman and it is open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize has made donations costs 12 months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of the group of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets are also distributed through the West Country to aid enlighten young people in regards to the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its great shape, continues to be as relevant nowadays within the same manner it turned out when George Pulman was alive.
It features a great power to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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