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
MaltaToday Survey | Traditional Labour voters: 10% say they’re not voting
Data & Surveys
[FULL DATA] Labour lead over PN up one point, Muscat’s trust lead over Busuttil down from 9 to 8 points
Landowners ‘stuck’ in ODZ want out, but is there enough public land for compensation?
Environment
The government wants to ‘tweak’ development boundaries by increasing private land to be developed and compensating it by putting public land outside development zones....