Kühnel has been honoured within the magazine industry for his contributions and expertise in producing quality magazines and in shaping the development of the magazine industry. The now retired Kühnel will always be remembered for his masterful ways of convincing well known international magazine companies to award magazines like Cosmopolitan and Oprah to the South African magazine industry.
Earlier this year Tony Howard and Nazeem Howa from the newspaper industry were also made Print Media SA Fellows.
