Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan

Founder and co-owner of MaltaToday, Saviour Balzan has reported on Maltese politics and society for over three decades.

In his early days he was actively involved in the environmental lobby and later the Green Party, Alternattiva Demokratika. He later immersed himself in journalism, working to set up newspapers such as il-Fehma, l-Alternattiva, The People and The Independent daily. .

MaltaToday was launched in 1999 to become a leading English-language newspaper. Balzan extended the Mediatoday stable with Maltese-language newspaper Illum, as well as TV programmes Xtra and Reporter. His memoirs are published in Saying It As It Is.

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Compromised by big business
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Saviour Balzan
‘Labour’s answer to being more social and greener is through the token politics of creating miniscule gardens tucked in between unsavoury building complexes. A way of...
Surprise me if you can
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Paying Albania or Rwanda hundreds of thousands to export migrants there to solve our so-called problems at home, reminds me of Hitler’s idea of transporting all the Jews to...
Chewing gum planning and politics
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Take from Peter to pay Paul
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If it is not a wakeup call, then what is it?
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God Bless
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A government designed to fail
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Here we go again
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The game of self-preservation
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Putting a problem on pause
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How to lose an election without trying
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Muscat should be banished from PL after revelation of plot against Chris Fearne
Stewardgate: The cabal behind the Fearne smear campaign
That white elephant in the room
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