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 have in mind the name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of a Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands continued to be 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 due to the reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was provided by Pulman’s journalists could be considered as being true.
What individuals might not know is always that George Pulman have also been an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To aid rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically have fun playing the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise drawn to be a regular member of exactly the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the need for building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to a lot of West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise have been cast aside and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the most responsibility and was an occupation addressed with great respect.
So in a today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to remember the values of a single of the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A person of faith who built a regional media empire within the wake with 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 exactly the same values of George Pulman which is open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize has created donations world food prices Yr to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the creation of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of an series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
A huge selection of leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed through the West Country to help you enlighten the younger generation about the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its various forms, is still as relevant in today’s world in mere exactly as it turned out 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 – may make society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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