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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According to the San Diego History Center, at the turn of the century, the corner of 5th Avenue and E Street in downtown San Diego was known as “Soapbox Corner." -
Volunteer-run mobile library helps kids discover love for reading in communities South of the borderA volunteer-run mobile library helps kids discover love for reading in communities south of the border. -
San Diego County supervisors will vote Tuesday on whether to extend its deadline for adopting a budget. KPBS metro reporter Andrew Bowen says it comes amid uncertainty over federal funding. -
Students across the district walked out of class Tuesday to protest potential layoffs of librarians, teachers, psychologists and vice principals. -
LGBTQ+ migrants in Tijuana have a new place to seek support. KPBS Video Journalist Matthew Bowler was in Tijuana for the inauguration. -
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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As San Diegans respond to recent government actions through art, we look at how protest signs, zines and installations connect today’s movements to a long history of resistance. -
Right now, to get onto SR-78 from the express lanes on I-15, drivers have to cross over five lanes of traffic and, at the same time, dodge incoming traffic from West Valley Parkway. -
The demonstration in front of the Panda Express on Highland Avenue between East Plaza Boulevard and East 12th Street was organic, with no one group organizing it. Instead, the call was spread through social media.
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