The radio journalist Åke Pettersson has passed away, 77 years old, according to the family to TT. Pettersson led for over 25 years Sweden's Radio's media scrutinizing program "Our Basic Opinion".
Åke Pettersson received the Grand Journalism Award in 1993 and was also awarded the Torgny Segerstedt Freedom Pen in 2000.
Since "Our Basic Opinion" disappeared from the airwaves, Åke Pettersson was also the program host for "Published" in P1 between 2007 and 2013.
