Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network

Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman is constantly on the offer sponsorship to great causes.

Many West Country communities know 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 stayed a prolific news source more than 150 year through the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

Pulman’s news was always renowned due to the reliability and trustworthiness. The fact that was published by Pulman’s journalists could be considered as being true.

What people might not know is always that George Pulman have also been a lifelong committed Christian who worshipped regularly at his local town church in Axminster, Devon.

To assist rouse local attendance, George would enthusiastically have fun playing the church organ with a Sunday morning. There he took the meet and marry his young wife, who was likewise fascinated by become a regular part of the same Axminster congregation.

Throughout his life he supported the significance of building community: through Church, rural life and local news. He always upheld values of truth and helped give voice to many people West Country causes and concerns which may otherwise have already been cast aside and forgotten.

Journalism would have been a task that required the maximum responsibility and it was an occupation addressed with great respect.

So within an today’s era of pretend news and political propaganda, perhaps it’s about time to recall the values of just one with the news media’s earliest pioneers.

A male of faith who built a regional media empire from 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 continues to uphold the identical values of George Pulman which is open for nominations all year round.”

The bursary prize makes donations during the past Yr to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association and also the output of new talking newspapers and recorded books for the elderly and partially sighted.

Recently the Pulman’s Award aids fund the publication of an group 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 enlighten the younger generation regarding the dangers of drugs and addiction.

Publishing, in most its various forms, is still as relevant nowadays in mere exactly as 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 society a better place.

(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)

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