Tributes are flowing for a giant of Tasmanian journalism who led the state's political coverage for decades.

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Barry Prismall, a former chief political reporter and deputy editor at The Examiner , died on Saturday, October 4, following a short illness.

Tasmanian political journalist Barry Prismall has died aged 74. Picture by Paul Scambler

He was 74.

Politicians, contemporaries and colleagues have been quick to pay tribute to a brilliant mind that could instantly recall the minutiae of countless political unfoldings.

"At his peak ... he was

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