Editor fired over claims a BLM organizer plagiarized

A New York Daily News editor was fired Tuesday as a result of the fallout from claims that columnist Shaun King had plagiarized from multiple newsrooms, including the Daily Beast and FiveThirtyEight.

“We have discovered today that over the course of the past few months one of our editors has made a series of egregious and inexplicable errors,” Daily News executive editor Jim Rich said in a statement. “On at least three separate occasions, the editor deleted attribution that made it appear passages from Shaun King’s columns were not properly credited. These mistakes are unacceptable and the editor in question has been fired.”