Mathew Ingram Joins GigaOm

Canadian tech journalist Mathew Ingram has forgone for the corporate teet and joined the GigaOm blog network.

Ingram writes on GigaOm that “As the web has filled up with fast-food-style news hits and me-too blog posts, each more shallow than the last, I think the kind of intelligent and insightful coverage GigaOM specializes in has become even more important now, and I hope to be able to contribute to that.”

Ingram and I haven’t seen eye to eye over the years, but although we may have had our disagreements he is one of the smarter tech writers in the space, and certainly up there as one of the best tech writers in Canada. Besides, I love seeing career journalists switch from newspapers (Ingram was at the Globe and Mail for 15 years) to new media outlets; although he is one of many, it’s further evidence that there is there a profitable, sustainable future in new media. It also shows again that there is a future for talented old school journalists, one that pays the bills, away from newspapers, despite the rubbish we hear from those in heritage media who are ignorant of what is going on in the space.

The GigaOm network would appear to be going from strength to strength, and stands today as one of the few companies outside of AOL that is going well with the many blogs blog network model that has mostly gone out of favor in the last 12-18 months.