The Prysms Weekly

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The Prysms Weekly is a news magazine created with the intent of providing Columbia, Missouri a forum for community discussion and a wide and uncensored spectrum of outlooks on a broad array of topics. Publisher, Tim Rappleano, created the paper in May of 2007 along with Associate Publisher, Abraham T. Dyer. The staff initially consisted of Jim Shipley, Jeff Branscom, and briefly one other reporter, as the paper's first editorial board and staff writers, in addition to one copy editor and a handful of photographers.
The first issue of the Prysms hit stands on July 6, 2007, and an enthusiastic Columbia began writing. By the seventh issue on August 17, 2007, community submissions had become so numerous that the publishers decided to restructure. Dyer and Rappleano retained only Shipley as humor section editor, staff writer, and copy editor, and contribute some material of their own, but the bulk of the content comes from Columbia - and now Jefferson City - citizens. Regular contributors include James Barnes, Tony Barnicle, Bob Boldt, Steve Boriss, Cameron Hatch, and Dwayne Stone.