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
Harbour area air pollution linked to high rates of lung collapse
Environment
Study links higher rates of lung collapse in harbour area to deteriorating air quality between 2010 and 2014
Third party lovers: seven hurdles for the newly-wedded AD/PD party
National
Alternattiva Demokratika and the Partit Demokratiku have taken their vows. But will the sum of two parties past their prime be greater than that of the parts? asks JAMES DEBONO