How do journalism schools manage to keep training youngsters for an industry where employment is collapsing?Over the last few decades, newspapers and wire services have fewer Americans as foreign correspondents. Many foreign bureaus have closed. Increasingly, media outlets have relied on American freelancers to report foreign news -- or they've hired from the local market in foreign countries. As newspapers undertake mass layoffs, journalism professors can nevertheless be counted on to find a way to justify their jobs. Some have jumped on the "diversity" bandwagon, devising programs to help newspaper editors meet minority quotas. Now, many J-school have hatched another scheme to attract students -- high-priced courses teaching them how to be foreign correspondents.And no matter that few if any jobs as full-time foreign correspondents exist anymore.In a story that spills the beans on the newest J-school fad, the American Journalism Review has a story that starts out as a puff...(Read Full Post)