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
Holy cow: Maltese among least likely to cut down on meat for planet
Environment
Frugal Maltese more likely than other Europeans to cut down on disposables and buy energy saving appliances
Muscat, from statesman to nuisance: five takeaways from his interview
National
Has Joseph Muscat relegated himself from the once-statesman with European ambitions, to a nuisance factor who capitalises on his supporters’ undying love with a warning to...