Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands remained a prolific news source for more than 150 year through the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned because of its reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was created by Pulman’s journalists might be viewed as being true.
What people might not 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 help you rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play in the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who was simply likewise drawn to turn into a regular part of precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the importance of building community: through Church, rural life and native news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many West Country causes and concerns that could otherwise have already been cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the maximum responsibility and it was a career helped by great respect.
So in the today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to can remember the values of 1 of the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of religion who built a regional media empire in the wake of the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who’s the actual 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 all year round.”
The bursary prize has produced donations in the past 12 months towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for that elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of an compilation of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses designed to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets are also distributed throughout the West Country to aid enlighten young people in regards to the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its great shape, remains to be as relevant in today’s world in just the same way that it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make society an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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