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 is considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands remained an abundant news source for more than 150 year through the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was created by Pulman’s journalists could be regarded as being true.
Exactly who may well not know is that George Pulman seemed to be a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To aid 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 had been likewise interested in turn into a regular an affiliate the identical 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 people West Country causes and concerns that could otherwise have been release and forgotten.
Journalism was a task that required the absolute maximum responsibility and was an occupation addressed with great respect.
So in the today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to can remember the values of one with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of faith 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 existing managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary will continue to uphold the same values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize has produced donations world food prices 12 months towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the creation of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of your compilation of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses meant to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back from the community.
Countless leaflets and booklets have also been distributed throughout the West Country to aid enlighten teenagers in regards to the dangers of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in every its many forms, is still as relevant today in only the same way that it turned out when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great chance to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make our society an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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