Lena Maria Mellin is a Swedish journalist and domestic policy commentator for Aftonbladet . She had earlier been the news director at the same paper. She won 'The Great Journalist Award' in 1996. [1] Two years later in 1998 she was awarded the Lukas Bonnier Great Journalist Award. [2] Mellin is also a recurring domestic policy commentator and writer for other media, among others in the book Makten framför allt, an anthology about Göran Persson. [3]