With the launch of the Apple iPad, the retirement of Larry King and the ascension of WikiLeaks, 2010 was a year for the media history books. Here's columnist Jonathan Berr's list of the top media stories of the year.
The story of WikiLeaks illustrates how the Internet is changing cyber warfare. In the battle to control the political conversation, independent groups can now get information out as easily as governments can, and it's harder than ever before for countries to stop them.
EBay is no longer allowing donors to send WikiLeaks money through PayPal, a move that has cut off the largest source of money to the website that has been leaking confidential U.S. government documents. The decision comes as the site has faced a flurry of hacker attacks.
When WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asserted that his next big leak would involve documents from a major unnamed bank, investors in Bank of America got nervous and the stock has been on bumpy ride. The question now is: Have the WikiLeaks worries made BofA shares a better buy?
Despite all the media fervor over WikiLeaks massive document dump of decades of U.S. diplomatic correspondence, the leaked material hasn't revealed anything new. But while it may not harm national security, the leak could deal a serious blow to mainstream efforts to increase government transparency.