James Debono

James Debono

James Debono is MaltaToday's chief reporter on environment, planning and land use issues, and one of the newspaper's main political analysts. Apart from blogging regularly on politics, James Debono won the IĠM national press awards' environmental reporter of the year in 2011 and in 2025. Debono coordinates MaltaToday's surveys, which has conducted polls on all electoral appointments since 2008. He read history and obtained his Masters' degree from the University of Malta, and in the past worked for TV production house Where's Everybody before joining MaltaToday in 2005. A co-founder of Moviment Graffitti and active in Moviment ghall-Ambjent, he served as a media officer for Alternattiva Demokratika - the Green Party.

Articles by this author
56% of Maltese see themselves as 'middle class'
National
Eurobarometer survey registers 11-point increase in Maltese respondents identifying themselves as working class compared to previous year
Edwin and Jason: End of the road for two PN archetypes
National
In the process of electing 17 new MPs, the Nationalist Party lost two of its most iconic figures: an ultra-conservative shopkeeper, and a sanctimonious lawyer who reinvented...