Kuba Shand-Baptiste has been named as the first winner of the Barbara Blake-Hannah award for an up-and-coming journalist from a BAME background.

Shand-Baptiste was nominated for her work on the Voices comment section of The Independent. She has since joined The Conversation as society and arts editor.

Blake-Hannah, 79, was the first regular black on-screen TV news reporter in the UK in 1968, but was sacked by Thames TV because of racist letters sent in by viewers.