Report by Angelina L. Kennedy for the Christian Media Network

Regional bursary prize named after the Victorian newspaper group publisher George PR Pulman will continue to offer sponsorship to great causes.

Many West Country communities understand the name George Pulman well. He or she is considered something of the Victorian media mogul who founded Pulman’s Weekly News in 1857.

His media brands remained a prolific news source for over 150 year throughout the prime agricultural counties of Devon, Dorset and Somerset.

Pulman’s news was always renowned for the reliability and trustworthiness. The thing that was authored by Pulman’s journalists may be regarded as being true.

What people might not know is George Pulman have 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 take part in the church organ on the Sunday morning. There he continued the meet and marry his young wife, who had been likewise fascinated by turn into a regular member of precisely the same Axminster congregation.

Throughout his life he believed in the importance 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 are already restarted and forgotten.

Journalism was obviously a task that required the absolute maximum responsibility and it was a career helped by great respect.

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

A male of religion 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 actual 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 made donations during the past Twelve months to the Bibic Football Fundraiser in Yeovil, the Dorset Blind Association as well as the manufacture of new talking newspapers and recorded books for that elderly and partially sighted.

Of late the Pulman’s Award assists fund the publication of your series of skills training workbooks and specially tailored courses designed to help ex-offenders find work and rebuild purposeful lives back inside community.

Countless leaflets and booklets have also been distributed across the West Country to help enlighten teenagers in regards to the perils associated with drugs and addiction.

Publishing, in most its great shape, remains as relevant today in only the same way that it had been when George Pulman was alive.

It provides a great capacity to do good.

Our British free press heritage and local news media are invaluable communication tools that – when used correctly – will make our universe a better place.

(George Philip Rigney Pulman: 1819 – 1880.)

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