Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for that Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named as soon as the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly on the offer sponsorship to good causes.
Many West Country communities have in mind the name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of your Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News way back in 1857.
His media brands always been an abundant news source for upwards of 150 year through the entire prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.
Pulman’s news was always renowned because of its reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was published by Pulman’s journalists might be considered as being true.
What folks might not know is that George Pulman has also been a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.
To aid rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically play the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise attracted to become a regular part of the identical Axminster congregation.
Throughout his life he supported the need for building community: through Church, rural life and local 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 was obviously a task that required the most responsibility and it was a job treated with great respect.
So in an today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to recall the values of 1 in the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A male of faith who built a regional media empire inside the wake in the industrial revolution which lasted through multiple generations.
Duncan Williams, from Devon, that is the existing managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary will continue to uphold the identical values of George Pulman and is also open for nominations throughout every season.”
The bursary prize has created donations world food prices Yr for the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Recently the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of the number of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses made to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside the community.
Numerous leaflets and booklets have been distributed throughout the West Country to help you enlighten young people concerning the risks of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in all its various forms, remains as relevant nowadays in mere the same manner it turned out when George Pulman was alive.
It has a great power to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make our society a greater place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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