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December 28, 2010 8:38 AM

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Juan Williams — News analyst Juan Williams appears on the "Fox & friends" television program in New York, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Williams, who has written extensively on race and civil rights in the U.S., has been fired by National Public Radio after comments he made about Muslims on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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2010 was a year when the news business became the news. WikiLeaks may have changed journalism forever by revealing formerly secret diplomatic documents. And NPR's firing of news analyst Juan Williams kept pundits talking for months. Midday looks back at those stories, and other highlights of the media's year, with University of Minnesota Journalism Professor Jane Kirtley.

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Juan Williams — News analyst Juan Williams appears on the "Fox & friends" television program in New York, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Williams, who has written extensively on race and civil rights in the U.S., has been fired by National Public Radio after comments he made about Muslims on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor." (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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