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
Study shows girls feel more pressured by schoolwork than boys
National
An international school survey reveals that 79% of 15-year-old girls and 74% of 13-year-old girls feel pressured by schoolwork, compared to 61% and 79% of boys
A third of Maltese think women often invent rape claims
National
Eurobarometer survey finds that 55% of Maltese blame women for non-consensual online sharing of intimate pictures, and 24% think women sharing their opinions on social media...