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] Joseph Muscat: The Grinch who stole Christmas
National
Muscat delayed his imminent resignation by 42 days and opted for the shortest time-frame for his succession, for contenders to campaign over the holiday season in a highly...
We need these five things in place for a firewall between big business and politics
National
The arrest of Yorgen Fenech and the resignation of Keith Schembri have played out to an implosion in Maltese politics reminiscent of Italy’s Tangentopoli scandal. What kind...