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
Nice guy Karmenu. But Mifsud Bonnici as PM was a fiasco
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Saviour Balzan
No matter what the obituaries will say, as a politician Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici was a fiasco, and he presided over a tumultuous period of political violence
Silly me to think a recusal would not be fair play at all...
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Saviour Balzan
In the long list of defamation cases I have received and the few I have instituted, I have never ever tried to interrupt the judicial proceedings because of apparent or imagined...
Praise me – when I am gone
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'Innocent until proven guilty'
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Media reform: setting the record straight
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Waiting for the messiah
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Lip-service on climate is just a waste of time
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Orgy and anarchy
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Facing the stark truth
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Revolving doors
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Anything goes...
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There is hope after all
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What the sacking of Mario Mallia tells us about the Church
The elephant in the room
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