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] Breaking free? Only 45% of youths set to vote PN and PL
Data & Surveys
39% of 16-35s trust neither party, 25% will not vote, and only 45% are committed to the PN or PL – and all this despite an intensification of campaigning during the last...
St Julian’s: No decision on Palazzina Vincenti scheduling after three years
Planning
St Julian’s modernist landmark threatened by 14-storey hotel development