In presenting Prof. Burstiner the award for 2010 Journalism Educator of the Year in the Four-Year University Division, CAL-JEC Chairman Rich Cameron cited the June 2009 publication of her textbook "Investigative Reporting: From Premise to Publication" and the national award her investigative reporting students won from the Society of Professional Journalists for the story Nobody’s Business, which was published in the North Coast Journal in May 2008. Burstiner also serves as faculty adviser to the Lumberjack Newspaper.
At the CCMA awards ceremony at Hearst Castle, the HSU Lumberjack Newspaper also came home with three awards in the weekly newspaper category: Students Preston Drake-Hillyard and Satoshi Kondo took Third Place for Best Photo Series, student Christopher Bennett took Second Place for Best Sports Story and the Lumberjack staff took Third Place for Best Orientation Issue. The California College Media Association is a statewide organization that works to stimulate communication, organization and leadership among media students and advisers at junior colleges and universities in California.