Editor honored for column writing

Linda Ireland, editor of The LaRue County Herald News, was honored at the 2009 Society of Professional Journalists Metro Louisville Journalism Awards at Bellarmine University in June.

Ireland took first place in the community newspapers division for column writing.

The Greater Louisville Journalism Awards are open to newspaper, magazine, freelance, wire service, television, radio and online journalists whose work is published or broadcast in the Kentucky counties of Anderson, Breckinridge, Bullitt, Carroll, Franklin, Grayson, Hardin, Henry, Jefferson, LaRue, Marion, Meade, Nelson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, Taylor, Trimble and Washington, and the Indiana counties of Clark, Crawford, Floyd, Harrison, Jefferson, Perry, Scott and Washington.