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
Powering up the soft touch: can Malta punch above its weight?
National
Can Malta punch above its weight and make its mark in the world? MaltaToday caught up with experts and thinkers in different fields to map out Malta’s soft power arsenal and...
Successful start for organic waste collection
National
The introduction of the collection of organic waste has resulted in a sharp drop in the amount of mixed waste collected in black bags in many localities over the last quarter