The Prysms Weekly was 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 2007 from the remains of defunct MU Student News which he had purchased. Along with Associate Publisher, Abraham T. Dyer, the staff initially consisted of editor/writers 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.
Produced in much the same style as The Week or even The Daily Beast, the first issue of the Prysms hit stands on July 6, 2007, and Columbia citizens responded immediately. By the seventh issue on August 17, 2007, community submissions had become so numerous that the publishers decided to restructure. Dyer and Rappleano would contribute some material, and retained only Shipley as reporter, editorialist, humor section editor/writer, and copy editor, but the bulk of the content was then submitted by Columbia - and later Jefferson City - citizens. Regular contributors included James Barnes, Tony Barnicle, Bob Boldt, Steve Boriss, Cameron Hatch, and Dwayne Stone.
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