Jarl Alfredius

Jarl Martin Alfredius (3 January 1943 – 31 March 2009) was a Swedish journalist and newsreader at Swedish Television. Alfredius started his career on the radio news show "Dagens Eko", and was recruited to television news show "Aktuellt" in 1986. Alfredius also did TV shows for the "Kunskapskanalen" in 2004. He remained a news presenter at SVT until July 2008, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. Alfredius died aged 66 on 31 March 2009 in Stockholm, due to complications from his disease.