Recognition
- Recipient of an Emmy Award for media criticism.
- His script on the 50th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh's solo crossing of the Atlantic was reprinted in the first few editions of the journalism text Writing News for Broadcast, published by the Columbia University Press. "Burns writes with style," said author Charles Bliss, Jr. "You know an artist is at work from the first line."
- Was named by the Washington Journalism Review (now the American Journalism Review) as one of the best writers in the history of broadcast journalism.
- The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol was named one of the one of the best academic press books of 2003 by the American Library Association.
- Won the Eudora Welty Emerging Playwrights Competition in 2010 for his first play, Mid-Strut.
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