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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Two San Diego-based relief organizations are gearing up to provide assistance to the region. -
Chicano Park Day memorializes a conflict and celebrates a community. -
Sweetwater Union High School District is joining a new statewide school food program called California Thursdays. -
Councilwoman Marti Emerald, who has said she will not seek re-election next year, is giving her support to her chief of staff, Ricardo Flores. -
California School Board Association, Special Education Local Plan Area and the California Teachers Association oppose a bill that would make dyslexia screening compulsory. -
Federal officials have seized more than 56,000 pounds of cocaine in the Eastern Pacific only six months into the new year.
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San Diego City Council members last year approved a new placemaking program meant to encourage small-scale community beautification projects. Advocates say the program is an improvement, but that it's still too bureaucratic. -
Rose Schindler’s new book, “Two Who Survived,” tells the stories of family separation, concentration camps and building a new life in the United States. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe test period, starting Monday and continuing through Friday, will focus on a potential drone tracking system for large cities, which present tracking challenges because of tall buildings.
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- San Diego 101: Why is it so hard to build housing?
- First community-owned grocery store in San Diego’s South Bay to open this fall
- San Diego residents prepare for more access to coupons at grocery stores
- They already live on the edge. Trump’s immigration crackdowns now threaten their housing