Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for that Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to get affordable causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He’s considered something of an Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands stayed an abundant news source more than 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for its reliability and trustworthiness. That which was created by Pulman’s journalists may be viewed as being true.
Exactly who may not know is the fact that George Pulman was also an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help you rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play in the church organ over a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise attracted to become a regular person in precisely the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported 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 could otherwise are already release and forgotten.
Journalism was a task that required the absolute maximum responsibility and was an occupation helped by great respect.
So in an today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s recall the values of one from the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A person of faith who built a regional media empire from 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 on the uphold precisely the same values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations all through the year.”
The bursary prize has made donations costs 12 months for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of the group of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses designed to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets are also distributed across the West Country to help you enlighten teenagers concerning the hazards of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its great shape, continues to be as relevant these days in just the same manner it turned out when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make society a much better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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