Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan

Founder and co-owner of MaltaToday, Saviour Balzan has reported on Maltese politics and society for over three decades.

In his early days he was actively involved in the environmental lobby and later the Green Party, Alternattiva Demokratika. He later immersed himself in journalism, working to set up newspapers such as il-Fehma, l-Alternattiva, The People and The Independent daily. .

MaltaToday was launched in 1999 to become a leading English-language newspaper. Balzan extended the Mediatoday stable with Maltese-language newspaper Illum, as well as TV programmes Xtra and Reporter. His memoirs are published in Saying It As It Is.

Articles by this author
There is hope after all
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Saviour Balzan
Could there be a “revival” of the printed newspaper? A newspaper that comes with a smell and offers that same sensation of paper with a reading experience that could...
[WATCH] Saviour Balzan’s videoblog
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Saviour Balzan
In his first videoblog of the year, Saviour Balzan runs through what the 2018 could, and should hold for the country, from the need to seriously address environmental issues to...
Thank God, it’s Christmas
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[WATCH] Saviour Balzan's videoblog
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After the truth
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Game of courts: Why investigators fear suspects could demand recusal of new magistrate
Class. Not yet extinct
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Comfortably numb
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Coleiro Preca could run for MEP after President’s term ends in 2019
Wanted: another dreamer
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Revenge of the bogan
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'Let's be positive'
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A (short) history of impunity
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PN members’ poll: 10% voted Labour or abstained in 2017