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
Fragile certainties: Fluid identities, masculinity and reclaiming time
Books
Sens ta’ Ħarifa, Kurt Borg’s intimate and philosophical essay collection invites readers to embrace uncertainty, empathy, and the quiet power of everyday encounters
Permit for Balluta church parking revoked
Planning
The Environment and Planning Review Tribunal has revoked a permit for an underground car park in the former Carmelite convent grounds at Balluta