
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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More than 250 federal prosecutors and support staff in the San Diego U.S. Attorney’s Office are facing uncertainty after the Trump administration offered two million federal workers the option to resign by Thursday. KPBS’s Amita Sharma reports on the impact and growing concerns.
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Mexican officials have converted an events center into a temporary shelter to house up to 2,600 people in anticipation of mass deportations from the U.S.
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KPBS Video Journalist Matthew Bowler explores how San Diego comedians prepare to respond to the political climate during Trump’s second term.
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Through Noche de Poetas, local writers create a safe space to share their work and honor Tijuana's poetic tradition with a forthcoming anthology.
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An altar in Tijuana honoring journalists killed in Mexico features broken cameras, a bullet-ridden laptop and a typewriter.
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Libros, Café y Jazz marks 15 years as Tijuana's go-to bookstore, offering used books, coffee and jazz performances for all ages.
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The Catholic Diocese of San Diego has covered St. Katharine Drexel Academy’s deficits in past years, but said it no longer could because of its bankruptcy filing.
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Education specialists say high caseloads mean they can’t give students and their families the attention they need.
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San Diego's Bonus ADU Program allows what some critics call backyard apartment buildings. Many of the largest projects are proposed in the formerly redlined Encanto neighborhood.
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