The Telegraph’s Middle East correspondent has said she was targeted by a Russian campaign to discredit her work on Syria and has spoken about the end of the “fetishization” of female war reporters.

Josie Ensor, who won the Marie Colvin Award at the Press Gazette British Journalism Awards last month, was praised by the judges for her “sympathetic but clear-eyed” reporting from north-east Syria.

Ensor told Press Gazette: “I don’t think we’ve seen anything quite like it in terms of the two different narratives that have been going on in Syria.