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Citizen Journalism’s Credibility Reckoning: Speed vs. Scrutiny in the Digital News Era

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In the digital news arena, citizen journalism has upended traditional gatekeeping, empowering ordinary individuals to report events in real time via smartphones and social platforms. A December 2025 study in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications by Songcheng Zhou surveyed 486 frequent participants in India, revealing that user-generated content delivers ‘speedy, unpretentious, and public-influencing news’ but grapples with ‘major trustwo…
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WebProNews broke the news in on Saturday, January 24, 2026.
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