During the PIDA 2024 Awards ceremony, the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) presented PKN managing editor & publisher, Lindy Hughson MAIP, with the Distinguished Service Award for excellence in journalism.
The AIP Distinguished Service Award has been designed to recognise long-standing and significant contribution to the AIP.
AIP executive director Nerida Kelton said, "Lindy has played a significant role in elevating the AIP in the industry for a long period of time and through excellence in journalism. She works tirelessly for the AIP and is an invaluable member of the AIP family. Lindy is most deserving and this recognition is long overdue."
Hughson, for whom the award was a complete surprise on the night, said she would continue to strive to elevate the stories of the organisations, companies and people that make the Australian packaging industry the dynamic and progressive place it is.
"I am proud to be an AIP member and to serve the Australasian packaging industry through the work I do and that I feel so passionate about. I will keep asking the hard questions, and keep writing stories that celebrate the efforts and achievements of industry."
Hughson has been reporting on packaging for 30 years, originally in her birth country South Africa, and then in Australia where she heads up PKN, and is also publisher of sister media brands Food & Drink Business and Print21. She is currently also the president of the International Packaging Press Organisation (IPPO).
