Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan

Founder and co-owner of MaltaToday, Saviour Balzan has reported on Maltese politics and society for over three decades.

In his early days he was actively involved in the environmental lobby and later the Green Party, Alternattiva Demokratika. He later immersed himself in journalism, working to set up newspapers such as il-Fehma, l-Alternattiva, The People and The Independent daily. .

MaltaToday was launched in 1999 to become a leading English-language newspaper. Balzan extended the Mediatoday stable with Maltese-language newspaper Illum, as well as TV programmes Xtra and Reporter. His memoirs are published in Saying It As It Is.

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Lighting a flame
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Saviour Balzan
The PN needs to kick start the process of seeing what it should stand for. Failure to do so will render it irrelevant
Power of incumbency: some 1,000 Gozitans got jobs weeks before election
Election 2017
Private employers left smarting as workers deserted their jobs, while 450 government employees promoted from grade 18 to 16
Extraordinary spike in government jobs in Gozo before election
Saying it as it is: Part 2
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Saying it as it is
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Putting things into perspective
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Memories
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Saintly endorsements
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The mud bath
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Prostitutes and hypocrites
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Don’t dare raise the subject, or else …
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The real world
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From scratch
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The die is cast
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