Author Rebecca Burns

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  Rebecca Burns

  Deputy Editor

  Burns has contributed to Atlanta magazine since 1995 and worked on staff in various capacities, including serving as editor-in-chief from 2002 to 2009. She returned to the magazine in August 2012 after several years as director of digital strategy for Emmis Publishing, the magazine's parent company. Her career merges interests in media's future and our region's past. She's the author of three books on Atlanta history and at work on her fourth—an account of the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917. She co-curated the Atlanta History Center exhibit "Atlanta Magazine, 1961-2011: 50 Years of the Changing City" and produced the accompanying award-winning digital media project. An adjunct professor of journalism at Emory University, Burns is a frequent speaker at civic and community events. She lives in Cabbagetown with her husband, the designer and illustrator James Burns.

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