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 | PN at a crossroads: The narrow ideological choice
National
As Adrian Delia eyes a historic third leadership bid, he faces an insurgent candidacy from a former ally. James Debono asks, who is the fabled establishment rooting for, this time...
Applicant shaves off one floor from Naxxar ODZ elderly home
Planning
A proposed old people’s home instead of a disused livestock farm building in Naxxar will have one-storey less, according to new plans