Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for your 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 could be considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands remained a prolific news source for more than 150 year during the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was provided by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be viewed as being true.
Exactly who may not know is that George Pulman seemed to be an ongoing committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically take part in the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he went on the meet and marry his young wife, who was simply likewise interested in turn into a regular member of exactly the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he believed in the significance of 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 happen to be put aside and forgotten.
Journalism would have been a task that required the maximum responsibility and was an occupation given great respect.
So in an today’s era of fake news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to remember fondly the values of 1 from the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A guy of faith who built a regional media empire in the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, who is the existing 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 also open for nominations throughout every season.”
The bursary prize makes donations in the past Yr to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books to the elderly and partially sighted.
Lately the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of the number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets are also distributed over the West Country to help you enlighten the younger generation in regards to the perils associated with drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all of the its great shape, continues to be as relevant these days in only the same way that it was when George Pulman was alive.
It possesses a great power to do good.
Our British free press heritage and native press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – can make our universe an improved place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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