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Born and raised in Papua New Guinea, Philip Cass returned to PNG several times in the early '90s to research his MA thesis on the missionary press in German New Guinea.
He worked as a journalist and editor in Queensland for a decade before becoming an academic. His teaching career has taken him all over the world and included stints in darkest Teesside, nine years in Abu Dhabi and a year in the mountains of Oman.
He worked as a journalism trainer for Word Publishing in Port Moresby and took a sabbatical from Central Queensland University to work as chief sub-editor of The Times of PNG. He was one of the few western journalists to cover the ‘94 Rabaul volcanic eruption. He worked at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji where he established the student newspaper Wansolwara.
While working in the UK and the Arabian Gulf he continued his interest in the Pacific through academic articles and news stories and presentations to international conferences, including ESfO.
He was Editor of Pacific Journalism Review and a research fellow at the Pacific Media Centre at AUT. He moved to Auckland in 2010 to take up a position at Unitec. He currently teaches applied management at Otago Polytechnic Auckland International Campus.
His first book, People, Politics and the Press in Papua New Guinea was published by Unitec epress and can be downloaded for free here:
http://www.unitec.ac.nz/epress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Press-Politics-and-People |
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Communication studies History
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European Society for Oceanists (ESfO)  |
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Geographic places |
Fiji Islands Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands Vanuatu
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Historical periods |
The Colonial time 20th century 21st century
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Indigenous languages |
Tok Pisin |
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