Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network

Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to good causes.

Many West Country communities be aware of name George Pulman well. He could be considered something of your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.

His media brands stayed a prolific news source more than 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 fact that was provided by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be viewed as being true.

What folks may not know is the fact that George Pulman have also been a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.

To assist 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 was simply likewise interested in turned into a regular member of the same Axminster congregation.

Throughout his life he supported the value 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 might otherwise are already put aside and forgotten.

Journalism would have been a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a job given great respect.

So in the today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to can remember the values of a single in the news media’s earliest pioneers.

A person of religion who built a regional media empire inside the wake from the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.

Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the actual managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly uphold precisely the same values of George Pulman and is open for nominations throughout the year.”

The bursary prize has produced donations world food prices 12 months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books for that elderly and partially sighted.

Most recently the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of a compilation of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.

A huge selection of leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed across the West Country to assist enlighten young adults about the risks of drugs and addiction.

Publishing, in all of the its many forms, is still as relevant today in mere the same manner it turned out when George Pulman was alive.

It has a great capacity to do good.

Our British free press heritage and native press 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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