Wantok Niuspepa

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| motto = Niuspepa Bilong Yumi Ol Papua Niugini Stret

| type = Weekly newspaper

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| owner = Word Publishing

| founder = Francis Mihalic

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| foundation = {{start date|1970|08|05}}

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| language = Tok Pisin

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| headquarters = Boroko, Port Moresby

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| publishing_country = Papua New Guinea

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| website = {{URL|http://wantokniuspepa.com/}}

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Wantok Niuspepa (Wantok Newspaper) is a weekly newspaper in Papua New Guinea. It is the only Tok Pisin-language newspaper in Papua New Guinea, and is distributed throughout the country.{{cite web | url=http://wantokniuspepa.com/index.php/about-us | title=About Us | publisher=Wantok Niuspepa | accessdate=1 May 2017}} It was first published on 5 August 1970 from an office in Wewak with Father Francis Mihalic, a member of the Society of the Divine Word order, as its editor; while the project had first been initiated by Catholic bishops, it subsequently received limited support thereafter. It moved to Port Moresby in 1976.{{cite journal | url=http://unitec.researchbank.ac.nz/bitstream/handle/10652/2022/Fr%20Mihalic%20and%20Wantok%20PJR%202011.pdf | title=Fr Francis Mihalic and Wantok niuspepa | author=Cass, Philip | journal=Pacific Journalism Review | year=2011 | volume=17 | issue=1}} It is now operated by the Word Publishing Company.

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