Malta Today
| Type | Weekly |
|---|---|
| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | MediaToday Ltd |
| Editor | Saviour Balzan |
| Founded | 19 November 1999 |
| Political alignment | Liberalism |
| Language | English |
| Headquarters | San Ġwann |
| Country | Malta |
| Website | www |
MaltaToday is a twice-weekly English language newspaper published in Malta. Its first edition was published on 19 November 1999, and started out as a Friday newspaper. Currently it is published on Wednesdays and Sundays.
MaltaToday was first published on Friday, 19 November 1999. It was edited by Saviour Balzan and founded to provide a new, liberal alternative to the English-language press in circulation, by promoting an agenda in favour of EU accession and critical voices excluded from the establishment.
MaltaToday was published every week on Friday, positioning itself as a weekend newspaper for two years before it decided to enter the market of English-language Sunday newspapers, until then dominated by the Sunday Times and the Malta Independent on Sunday.
MaltaToday started achieving widespread recognition for its investigative reports and political news stories, earning a reputation for exposing stories left untouched by other media. It was the first newspaper to break the news in August 2001 that Commissioner of Police George Grech had been accused of sexual harassment. In 2002, it started revisiting the police investigations into the 1985 murder of Lino Cauchi, and with it, the political reverberations of the violence and mysteries of the 1980s.
It was a most vocal proponent for accession to the European Union, editorially committing itself to EU membership in 2002, and celebrating it in 2003.
In late 2003, Saviour Balzan purchased MaltaToday and the Malta Financial and Business Times from Network Publications, and started a new publishing firm, Newsworks. Newsworks would soon undergo a new name change, to Mediatoday, with the addition of Roger de Giorgio, formerly the CEO of the Nationalist party’s TV station Net TV, as the company's new co-owner. While Balzan hailed from the arena of third-party politics, as a founder of green party Alternattiva Demokratika, de Giorgio had headed the boycott office during the Nationalist party's campaign against partisan broadcasting by Xandir Malta in the 1980s, the state controlled television service.
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