Even execution watching is suffering as the media declines

This is something that I wouldn't have wanted to enter the journalism profession to do,watch executions.

The New York Times tells the story of Associated Press reporter Michael Graczyk who has witnessed more than 300 deaths, and many of those were people he had come to know.

But it seems that even this job is falling prey to the changing world of the media

What makes his record all the more extraordinary is that often, Mr. Graczyk’s has been the only account of the execution given to the world at large. Covering executions was once considered an obligatory — if often ghoulish — part of what a newspaper did, like writing up school board meetings and printing box scores, but one by one, such dutiful traditions have fallen away.