The Daily News fired an editor who removed attributions from lengthy quotes in a Shaun King column.

The unattributed quotes — from one story in the Daily Beast and another at FiveThirtyEight.com — ignited a storm of controversy over alleged plagiarism by King.

The imbroglio gained speed and heat Tuesday afternoon — including a full-on Twitter conflagration — when CNN’s Dylan Byers reported complaints by the two media outlets.

Daily Beast Executive Editor Noah Shachtman first noticed that material in King’s column contained two paragraphs on a police brutality story that were identical to the words first published by the Daily Beast’s Kate Briquelet.

King reacted quickly, sending Byers copies of his original column that he had emailed to his editors at the teetering tabloid. The original copy contained attributions and links to the respective stories.

That convinced Byers the problem was not with King, the paper’s senior justice writer, but lay elsewhere.

Later, the News acknowledged it had printed the materials without acknowledging the source and said it had fired the editor responsible.

The newspaper declined to name the editor, but CNNMoney’s Dylan Byers reported that it was Jotham Sederstrom.

Sederstrom, who also happens to be married to Gawker founding editor Elizabeth Spiers, did not respond to a request for comment.

Some Twitter ranters wondered why King didn’t see the irresponsible column changes as soon as they were published — and not until the social media flames were raging.

King said it was normal for him not to read his column once it passed to the editing process.

Daily News Editor-in-Chief Jim Rich did not return a call seeking comment.

Shachtman told Capital New York that he was not satisfied with the explanation by the News.

“In the end, we are judged not by what’s in our raw copy but what goes up on the printed page or on a website,” he said. “So while I appreciate that there may have been an effort to do attribution, ultimately we are judged by our results, not our intentions.”