Roxana Saberi, who was held in one of Iran’s worst prisons for her reporting work, is getting an NCAA Award of Valor.

It rather annoyed me that The Williston Herald lead this off with “Former Miss North Dakota…” I’m not saying that being Miss North Dakota is a bad thing, but I’d rather think that being locked in a prison for a few months for being a journalist would change how we perceive this remarkable and heroic individual.

What Roxana Saberi is now, in addition to what she’s done in the past, is a famous journalist.