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
Controversial MEPA permit for kickback scandal protagonist
National
MEPA approves fuel tanker garage in residential area, overturning unequivocal recommendation to refuse by Planning Directorate
Gozo’s electoral tunnel: survey-driven or feasible?
Elections 2013
Political parties in Gozo are responding to opinion polls showing the lack of jobs as the main concern in the 13th district and widespread agreement with the development of a...
On the seduction of ‘fast-tracking’
Opinions
MaltaToday survey | PN’s lead in blue strongholds registers smaller majority
MPs waive €1.2 million guarantee for Malta Fairs and Convention Centre deed
To tender or not to tender
Opinions
Different polls, same bad news for PN
Data & Surveys
A man with a plan | Konrad Mizzi
Elections 2013
MaltaToday survey - Labour regains lost ground, leads PN by 11 points
Labour’s energy proposal: not a gimmick, but…
Opinions
[ANALYSIS] Message in a logo - the colours of a campaign
Elections 2013
Illegal Citadella parking area does not justify new car park
From union to Labour | Manuel Micallef
Interview
A mayor for V18 | Alexei Dingli
Interview