Zack Eaton, Alexis Tainter, and Jake Chiarelli contributed to this story. In the city of St. Louis, a nurse is treating young children for severe burns from a house fire. She injects them with narcotics to help heal the wound and bathes. Mary Beth Tinker talks to student journalists at the JEA/NSPA National Convention about the Tinker Tour USA.

At the JEA/NSPA national journalism conference in San Francisco, my team and I won an excellent for this Online News Package. Social media has recently been identified as one of a journalist’s most powerful, impacting tools. Modern technology allows anyone, anywhere to be a reporter. The average citizen can capture in seconds what seasoned journalists used to take hours, if not longer, to cover. The emergence of this new machine has changed the modern lifestyle, and has revolutionized the conventional journalist.

Jake Chiarelli, Zack Eaton, and Hannah Stillman contributed to this story. This story received a Superior at the National High School Journalism Convention in San Diego.