Jarl Martin Alfredius was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 journalist

Journalist

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 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

Kunskapskanalen

Kunskapskanalen is a Swedish language television channel broadcasting educational and factual programming between 9 a.m. and 01 a.m. all days of the week...

in 2004. He remained a news presenter at SVT until July 2008, when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer

Prostate cancer

Prostate cancer is a form of cancer that develops in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system. Most prostate cancers are slow growing; however, there are cases of aggressive prostate cancers. The cancer cells may metastasize from the prostate to other parts of the body, particularly...

. Alfredius died aged 66 on March 31, 2009, in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, due to complications from his disease.