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
[ANALYSIS] Why Muscat changed tack and accepted the Lifeline migrants
National
Long read • 1,238 words | In an interview on One Radio on Sunday, Muscat adopted the legalistic argument to defend his government's position not to take in the...
[ANALYSIS] Why Adrian Delia is bracing for a 100,000-vote defeat
National
Long read • 1,361 words | While Muscat has expressed his intention to leave the political scene after winning the MEP elections which he is expected to win hands down,...