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
Five ways COVID-19 will weigh on the next general election
National
As the number of cases soared and Malta was forced into another quasi-lockdown, dispelling the PM’s own optimistic forecasts in January, the pandemic has emerged as the...
Updated | Budget 'irrelevant' as PN MPs pounce on government after Keith Schembri’s arrest
National
Opposition MPs insist that Saturday’s arrests were not a sign of functioning institutions but a result of inquiries triggered following reports filed by Simon...