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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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. -
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. -
KPBS Video Journalist Matthew Bowler explores how San Diego comedians prepare to respond to the political climate during Trump’s second term. -
Through Noche de Poetas, local writers create a safe space to share their work and honor Tijuana's poetic tradition with a forthcoming anthology. -
An altar in Tijuana honoring journalists killed in Mexico features broken cameras, a bullet-ridden laptop and a typewriter.
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A section of the original Berlin Wall is now on display in Playas de Tijuana. It is meant to encourage migrants looking for a better life. -
Passion for the performing arts runs high in the South Bay, but that passion can mask the sacrifices and tireless efforts made by artists. -
Firefighters are still working to extinguish a wildfire in the Potrero area. The blaze has burned 400-plus acres and is 10% contained as of Friday.
- Senate heads home with no deal to speed confirmations as irate Trump tells Schumer to 'go to hell'
- Russian volcano erupts days after monster quake shakes region
- Canada wildfires cause poor air quality in the midwest and northeast U.S.
- Chile's plunging birth rate may foreshadow future in U.S.
- Senate confirms ex-Fox News host Pirro as top federal prosecutor for nation's capital