Books Investigative Reporting from Premise to Publication: Building the Big Story | ||
Marcy Burstiner is a professor of journalism at Humboldt State University where she is the faculty adviser to The Lumberjack student newspaper. She authored the text book Investigative Reporting: From Premise to Publication which was published by Holcomb Hathaway in 2009. Since 2006 she has written a monthly column called "The Media Maven" on local media and First Amendment issues for The North Coast Journal, an alternative newsweekly based in Eureka, California. In 2015 the California Newspaper Publisher's Association named The Media Maven Best Column for mid-sized weeklies. She also helped to found the literary magazine Six Hens. In 2014 the Redwood Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union named her "Patriot of the Year."
Marcy Burstiner first started teaching at HSU as a lecturer and then was hired as a tenure-track professor in 2007. In 2011 she was awarded tenure. Prior to joining the faculty of HSU she was an assistant managing editor and West Coast Bureau Chief for The Daily Deal, a financial newspaper and web publication from 2000 to 2003. Before that, she was a senior writer for thestreet.com financial news site and a reporter for the Daily Journal in San Francisco, the San Francisco Business Times, the Desert Sun in Palm Springs, California and the Southern Illinoisan in Carbondale, Illinois. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from Union College, in Schenectady, New York. She grew up in Yonkers, New York.
In 2008, she founded, with her husband, the criminal defense attorney Jeffrey Dean Schwartz, the Humboldt Center for Constitutional Rights, known as HumRights.