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
Malta tops Mediterranean peers in public service satisfaction, EU survey finds
National
Flash Eurobarometer shows strong citizen engagement, predictability and trust in Maltese administration
Swatar development pulled from PA agenda for report clarification
Planning
A proposed development in Swatar was pulled from the Planning Authority’s agenda on 14 April, after a last-minute request for clarification on the case officer’s report