Citizen journalism using smartphones has proved itself as a powerful media tool that could compete with big media institutions. A few years earlier, smartphone played a leading role in Arab-spring uprisings, starting from Tunisia and spreading to Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and other countries. The myScoop app aims to turn mobile journalism into a real profitable career for mobile vloggers, and makes it easy for content seekers, such as media outlets and newsrooms, to reach out to on-ground camera freelancers, such as mobile journalists and field reporters.
