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
Electioneering while war is going on? Yawn...
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Saviour Balzan
Most people are literally switched off from what is an uneventful and boring election campaign whose victor is taken for granted, and has not created anything remotely exciting
The numbers tell a political story
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Saviour Balzan
The one thing that favours Labour is that the swing to the PN from the PL is insignificant. Bernard Grech’s trust has not increased and interestingly, the PN has not changed...
The waiting game is on
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What is the tax man doing in Sin City?
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Great expectations
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Upstanding citizens following the rules
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Does Muscat expect us to look the other way?
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Tough talk by the minister of bluntness
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The economy, stupid (apart from other important stuff)
Education: the key area COVID made us forget
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Some Christmas this has been...
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Living with COVID
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‘Privet’ property
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Happy holidays and no kissing under the mistletoe