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
History is just as important as maths
Opinions
James Debono
The reaction  on the social media and elsewhere to shocking events in Iraq and Palestine exposes crass ignorance on current affairs of a society with no sense of history.
Ombudsman to meet Mallia over army promotions dispute
Interview
Following legal dispute between Ombudsman Joseph Said Pullicino and home affairs minister Manuel Mallia on army promotions, the two are to meet this week