"At 10.15, Monday 4 July 2022, our father and my fiancé Thorbjörn Larsson died calmly and quietly after a long illness," it says on Facebook.
Thorbjörn Larsson has been called the godfather of the Swedish media world.
In addition to being editor-in-chief of Aftonbladet between 1987 and 1997, he has been CEO of TV4 and chairman of the board of Expressen.
Between 2006 and 2009, he was editor-in-chief of Dagens Nyheter.
"Few have meant so much to Swedish media"
Current editor-in-chief Peter Wolodarski comments on the death in DN:
Few people have meant as much to the development of Swedish media in the last 30 years as Thorbjörn Larsson.
He was crucial for Aftonbladet's early investments in the internet, which the newspaper still lives on today, and led the evening newspaper a group of managers who later advanced and came to dominate Media Sweden, says Peter Wolodarski.
"Saved Aftonbladet"
Aftonbladet's editor-in-chief Lena K Samuelsson describes him as the one who saved the newspaper.
- Thorbjörn Larsson is the man who saved Aftonbladet.
He took a messy and mismanaged newspaper and created the Nordic region's largest newspaper and news site.
It is almost impossible to put into words Thorbjörn's significance for Aftonbladet, for all of us who had to work with him and for everything he left behind.
It is an extremely heavy day, she tells Aftonbladet.
Thorbjörn Larsson started his career in 1965 at Bergslagsposten.
In 1969, he started as an editor at Aftonbladet, to ten years later become news director and then become editor-in-chief.
In 1995, he received Lukas Bonnier's Grand Journalist Award.