An Idaho Newspaper Editor Struggled to Get Excel Access for Staff. After Tweeting About It, She was Fired.

Before she was appointed the top editor at the Idaho Statesman, Christina Lords was known for going to bat for her staff.

So when McClatchy, the Boise newspaper’s parent company, initially denied a new reporter’s request for access to Microsoft Excel, Lords took up the matter herself, she said. Faced with resistance to get a basic software program, the 34-year-old editor lamented the struggle on Twitter last week.

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