RDE2023 welcomes Hedvig Nilsson, News Editor, Sveriges Radio

Hedvig Nilsson is a news editor at P4 Värmland, one of 26 local radio stations of the Swedish public broadcaster Sveriges Radio. She has been working as a journalist since 1995, both locally and nationally, and the past 14 years she has been working with radio, as a show host, a reporter as well as an editor. Alongside her work as a supervisor in local news journalism, she makes radio documentaries for a national audience. One of her stories about how a Swedish university professor organized a commando mission to rescue her doctoral student from ISIS-controlled Iraq spread to international attention. Her latest documentary revealed that many young adults in Sweden seek to overturn neuropsychiatric diagnoses they were given as children.