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, amongst others in the book Makten framför allt, an anthology about Göran Persson.[3]