My media

The former PCC chair Sir Christopher Meyer shares his media choices

Lionel Davidson obituary

Obituary: Award-winning writer renowned for thrillers such as The Rose of Tibet and The Chelsea Murders

Guardian triumphs at Games Media Awards

At the packed Games Media Awards ceremony in Camden's Jongleurs club lastnight, The Guardian won best newspaper games coverage for the third yearrunning. We beat The Sun, the Telegraph, The Mirror, the Daily Star Sunday and the Independent to the hard-won gong, although Gamesblog lost out in the specialist blogging category to news site, VG247.com. I carried around the hefty Perspex award for most of the night until Technology production editor Stuart O'Connor successfully wrestled it from my grasp

News of your world

Local news coverage could get a new lease of life if TV, radio, newspapers and other media groups get public cash to form consortia, but the scheme is controversial. By Chris Tryhorn