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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National University and eight other universities are getting together to help preschool to 12th grade students and teachers. -
The San Diego-based international health organization Project Concern International is being recognized for its work. -
California’s state-funded preschool program is using old income restrictions to keep out many children in need, according to the San Diego Unified School District. -
After a 40-year hiatus, the Gold Star garden at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego is rededicated to honor service members killed in combat. -
The Urban Discovery Academy will move its school to 14th and F streets in downtown San Diego in September. The school accepted a $30,000 bell on Monday. -
Most members of Cal State San Marcos' class of 2015 beat the odds getting their degrees. The majority in caps and gowns are first-generation college students.
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KPBS Midday EditionDistance learning during the pandemic has only worsened students' achievement gap from marginalized communities and those growing up in privilege. But could there be some long-term benefits to this experience? -
The pandemic has had a profound impact on how San Diegans get around. Now planners are figuring out what lessons can be applied to the long-term future of transportation. -
KPBS Midday EditionAlmost a month after the Biden administration launched a program to process some asylum-seekers along the southern border, hundreds of people are now camped outside of the San Ysidro Port of Entry.
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