Jesse Doherty

Jesse Doherty appears in Betty Boop, Excel Olympics, Penny-isms: Our 2026 Valentines as the [[WashingtonPost|Washington Post]] journalist whose article about the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Competition becomes Jess Jang’s Valentine.

The source values Doherty’s article because it treats spreadsheet competitors with sports-journalism seriousness: semifinals, finals, screens projected for spectators, and spreadsheet puzzles become an event people can follow. In the wiki, Doherty’s role is to make Competitive Spreadsheeting legible as performance rather than only technical office labor.

Connections

• [[WashingtonPost|Washington Post]] - publication context.
• Jess Jang - Planet Money participant who praises the article.
• Microsoft Excel - competition medium.
• Competitive Spreadsheeting - core topic of the article as presented by the episode.