Fired Daily News Editor Blames 'Formatting Glitch'
Jotham Sederstrom offers an explanation.
Jotham Sederstrom, the New York Daily News editor who was fired after attributions were removed from columnist Shaun King’s pieces, has issued a statement about the incident. Sederstrom said it all comes to down “sloppy editing” and a “formatting glitch.”
Sederstrom wrote that he was “100 percent to blame,” and stated that King’s attributions to The Daily Beast and FiveThirtyEight were deleted because he was busy and forgot about them:
In those two cases where no citation or hyperlink appeared in the column, I believe I likely cut attribution from the top of Shaun’s quoted text with the intention of pasting them back inside the block — only to get distracted with another of the many responsibilities I juggled as an editor.
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