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
An autonomous Gozo: Not quite as island scores poorly on autonomy index
National
The push for Gozitan self-determination is limited by lack of autonomous political movements and parties according to sociologist Godfrey Baldacchino
After Francis: A church for a messy world
National
James Debono catches up with a mosaic of informed voices from within the Maltese Church to explore where the church is heading after Francis. He finds little appetite for a return...