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 good causes.
Many West Country communities understand 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 an abundant news source more than 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. What was provided by Pulman’s journalists might be thought to be being true.
Exactly who might not exactly know is the fact that George Pulman was also an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To aid rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play in the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise fascinated by become a regular part of precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the importance of building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to a lot of West Country causes and concerns that could otherwise have been restarted and forgotten.
Journalism would be a task that required the utmost responsibility and was a job helped by great respect.
So in a today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s time to recall the values of 1 of the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of faith who built a regional media empire from the wake of the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the current managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary will continue to uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize makes donations in the past Twelve months on the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and also the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of a group of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed over the West Country to assist enlighten young adults regarding the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its many forms, continues to be as relevant today in only exactly as it turned out when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great power to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make our universe an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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