Matthew Bowler
Video JournalistMatthew Bowler is an award-winning journalist from San Diego. Bowler comes from a long line of San Diego journalists. Both his father and grandfather worked as journalists covering San Diego. He is also a third generation San Diego State University graduate, where he studied art with a specialty in painting and printmaking. Bowler moved to the South of France after graduating from SDSU. While there he participated in many art exhibitions. The newspaper “La Marseillaise” called his work “les oeuvres impossible” or “the impossible works.” After his year in Provence, Bowler returned to San Diego and began to work as a freelance photographer for newspapers and magazines. Some years later, he discovered his passion for reporting the news, for getting at the truth, for impacting lives. Bowler is privileged to have received many San Diego Press Club Awards along with two Emmy's.
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Miguel Márquez San Juan, who ran Libros, Café y Jazz for 16 years, is remembered for creating a gathering place that blended literature, music and community in Tijuana. -
Families build altars called ofrendas for the Mexican holiday Día de Muertos, honoring those who have passed on. In Tijuana, one group uses this time to build an altar to remember journalists killed for doing their jobs. KPBS Video Journalist Matthew Bowler says just last weekend, another Mexican journalist was killed. -
The annual Día de Muertos altar at Mercado Hidalgo is a beloved Tijuana tradition honoring the deceased. -
San Diego began rolling out new high-tech trash bins Monday. San Diego City Council President Joe LaCava said the passing of Measure B, and charging San Diegans for trash collection is what made getting the new bins possible. -
A small group of opera lovers launched Ópera de Tijuana 25 years ago. The company has since become a cultural force in Mexico’s second-largest city. -
San Diegans are sweating through a heat wave for the next few days. KPBS reporter Thomas Fudge spoke to forecasters and some folks who are trying to keep cool.
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Jewish Family Service has run the program at the Encinitas Community & Senior Center parking lot since 2020. The agency said it has served more than 300 people in that time. -
This is the latest in an ongoing battle over releasing recipients names and immigration status. -
It’s not the first time these variable-message signs have been hacked in Encinitas. It's happened four times within the past three months.
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