Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities have in mind the name George Pulman well. He is considered something of your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands continued to be an abundant 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 fact that was provided by Pulman’s journalists might be regarded as being true.
What individuals might not know is that George Pulman was also a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To aid rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically take part in the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he proceeded the meet and marry his young wife, who was simply likewise attracted to turned into a regular person in exactly 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 numerous West Country causes and concerns that may otherwise are already release and forgotten.
Journalism would have been a task that required the utmost responsibility and it was a job helped by great respect.
So in the today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s remember the values of a single from the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of religion who built a regional media empire in the wake in 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 is constantly on the uphold exactly the same values of George Pulman and it is open for nominations throughout the year.”
The bursary prize has made donations during the past 12 months for 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.
Lately the Pulman’s Award helps fund the publication of your number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back from the community.
Countless leaflets and booklets seemed to be distributed through the West Country to assist enlighten young people concerning the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its various forms, continues to be as relevant today within the same manner it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make modern society a greater place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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