Marie Colvin was honoured by her colleagues last night as she was awarded a special award at the inaugural British Journalism Awards.

Judges unanimously agreed that Colvin deserved the award for doing “more than any other to inspire journalists, young and old”.

Sunday Times foreign editor Sean Ryan and Paul Conroy, the photographer who was with Colvin in the besieged Syrian city of Homs when she was killed in February, accepted the award on her behalf.