Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities have in mind the name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of an Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands always been a prolific news source for over 150 year throughout the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned because of its reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was provided by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be thought to be being true.
What people might not exactly know is always that George Pulman has 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 in the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise attracted to become a regular part of the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he advocated the need for 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 may otherwise have already been put aside and forgotten.
Journalism would have been a task that required the maximum responsibility and it was a career addressed with great respect.
So in an today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to recall the values of a single in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of religion who built a regional media empire from the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is the actual managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary will continue to uphold the identical values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize has created donations during the past Yr towards the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the creation of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Most recently the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of your compilation of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
A huge selection of leaflets and booklets are also distributed through the West Country to aid enlighten the younger generation about the hazards of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its many forms, is still as relevant these days in just exactly as it had been when George Pulman was alive.
It has a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – may make our society an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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