Fr Francis Mihalic and Wantok niuspepa
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Cass, Philip
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2011
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Journal Article
Ngā Upoko Tukutuku (Māori subject headings)
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development communication
Society of the Divine Word
ecumenical
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Tok Pisin
vernacular publishing
Wantok
Papua New Guinea
missionary presses
SVD Mission Education and Research
Society of the Divine Word
ecumenical
language
Tok Pisin
vernacular publishing
Wantok
Papua New Guinea
missionary presses
SVD Mission Education and Research
ANZSRC Field of Research Code (2020)
Citation
Cass, P. (2011).Fr Francis Mihalic and Wantok niuspepa in Papua New Guinea. Pacific Journalism Review, 17(1): 210-226.
Abstract
Papua New Guinea’s Tok Pisin language newspaper Wantok, founded in 1969, is one of the publishing icons of the South Pacific. Drawing on interviews with Fr Francis Mihalic and Bishop Leo Arkfeld made in the early 1990s, a manuscript history of the early days of the Wantok, written by Mihalic, and material drawn from the archives in the Society of the Divine Word’s mother house in Mt Hagen, this article seeks to present a picture of a man who was at once a priest, a publisher, a propagandist, a linguist, a lecturer and often a cause of bewilderment to the very bishops whose work he was supposed to be doing. While acknowledging Mihalic’s role as the creator of Wantok, it places the emergence of the newspaper within an historical, educational, religious and social framework that shows it emerging and growing in response to several broad trends.
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Auckland University of Technology, School of Communication Studies, Pacific Media Centre
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