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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Difference Makers International, a bullying prevention nonprofit, put 3,000 Chula Vista high school kids in a room to hash out bullying problems. -
The conference is aimed at helping high school counselors motivate more students to get college degrees. -
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan came to San Diego seeking feedback on common core. -
The governor wants tuition to remain flat while the UC Regents say they need to raise it.
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The Superintendent of Ramona Unified School District says students will suffer because of voters' failure to pass the $40 million school bond.
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The splat radius of this year's Halloween pumpkin drop broke a 14-year record.
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California isn’t the only region dealing with devastating wildfires. South of the border in Baja California, Mexican firefighters and local authorities have squared off against quick-moving fires that have left local residents with little time to get to safety. -
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.
- Gloria's ADU proposal would block housing in San Diego's whitest, wealthiest neighborhoods
- Montgomery Field Airport weather instruments not functioning properly at time of plane crash
- ICE agents swarm San Diego immigration court, arresting people after their hearings
- El Cajon skilled nursing facility kitchen temporarily shut down for ‘major’ health violations
- A music talent agency says 3 employees died on a plane that crashed into a San Diego neighborhood