Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman continues to offer sponsorship to get affordable causes.
Many West Country communities be aware of name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of an Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands stayed an abundant news source for over 150 year during the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned because of its reliability and trustworthiness. That which was provided by Pulman’s journalists could possibly be considered as being true.
What individuals may well not know is that George Pulman was also a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To help you rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play the church organ over a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise interested in be a regular person in exactly the same Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he advocated the value of 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 been put aside and forgotten.
Journalism was obviously a task that required the most responsibility and was a career given great respect.
So in a today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s remember fondly the values of 1 with the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man of faith who built a regional media empire in the wake of the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the present 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 open for nominations all year round.”
The bursary prize has produced donations costs 12 months to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of an number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses built to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back within the community.
Hundreds of leaflets and booklets have been distributed across the West Country to aid enlighten the younger generation about the hazards of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in most its various forms, remains as relevant these days in mere the same way that it absolutely was when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capability to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – will make society a much better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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