David Knowles, The Telegraph journalist who launched the acclaimed Ukraine: The Latest podcast, has won a posthumous award for providing “a voice for those who need it most”.

Mr Knowles was awarded the Public Service Journalism prize at the British Journalism Awards on Thursday evening, three months after his sudden death aged 32.

Accepting the award on his behalf, his colleague and podcast co-host Francis Dearnley called Mr Knowles “an amazing journalist” who “kept our spirits high”.

“David would be, I think, extremely humbled and slightly amused to win this award,” Mr Dearnley said.

“He was an amazing journalist, but he was also a rare breed in our business, in that he had no ego. He was a brilliant journalist, but also a brilliant human being, which in these harsh times is, I think, more important than ever.