Report by Angelina L. Kennedy to the Christian Media Network
Regional bursary prize named following your Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman continues to offer sponsorship to great causes.
Many West Country communities know the name George Pulman well. He is considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.
His media brands continued to be an abundant news source for upwards of 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 could be regarded as being true.
Exactly who may not know is the fact 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 play in the church organ on a Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had previously been likewise interested in turned into a regular part of the identical 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 many West Country causes and concerns that could otherwise have been restarted and forgotten.
Journalism was a task that required the absolute maximum responsibility and it was an occupation helped by great respect.
So in the today’s era of faux news and political propaganda, perhaps it is time to can remember the values of just one from the news media’s earliest pioneers.
A man 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’s the present managing editor of Pulman’s Weekly News & Advertiser Series, says: “The Pulman’s Award and bursary is constantly on the uphold the same values of George Pulman and is open for nominations throughout the year.”
The bursary prize makes donations in the past 12 months to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association along with the production of new talking newspapers and recorded books for your elderly and partially sighted.
Of late the Pulman’s Award has helped fund the publication of a series 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 have been distributed over the West Country to help you enlighten young adults in regards to the dangers of drugs and addiction.
Publishing, in every its many forms, is still as relevant these days in only the same way that it was when George Pulman was alive.
It provides a great capacity to do good.
Our British free press heritage and local press are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – could make society a better place.
(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)
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