Daily News editor’s screwup shakes sleepy tabloid

The Daily News editor fired for deleting attributions from a column — making it appear the columnist plagiarized a rival — has been identified as Jotham Sederstrom.

He was fired on Tuesday after it came to light he removed attribution for lengthy stretches of text that columnist Shaun King quoted from stories in The Daily Beast and FiveThirtyEight.com.

The name of the fired editor was first reported by CNNMoney’s Dylan Byers.

Sederstrom, married to Elizabeth Spiers, a former editor of the New York Observer and Gawker, did not return emails seeking comment.

Michael Moynihan, a reporter for Vice Media, said he spoke with Sederstrom and the ousted editor took “100 percent responsibility” for the breach of journalistic standards that caused the unattributed material to run under King’s byline.

The controversy rocked the Daily News newsroom and raised questions about the teetering tabloid’s collective failure to edit.

King filed his column via email to Sederstrom and five other editors , according to a nine-minute video the columnist posted on social media.

Among the editors to receive the column was Editor-in-Chief Jim Rich.

It is still not clear why Rich and the other four editors to receive the column, besides Sederstrom, didn’t notice the changes between the pre-edited column and the published column.

King told Byers that he doesn’t regularly read his published columns.

When reached, Daily News Managing Editor Robert Moore said, “Not answering any questions. Thank you” — and then hung up.

None of the four editors returned calls or emails.