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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The San Diego State University's men’s basketball team made their city proud Monday night. Thousands of fans crowded into Viejas Arena to watch the Aztecs face the University of Connecticut Huskies in the NCAA National Championships. Before tip-off the scene outside the arena was chaotic as fans tried to get inside.
Although SDSU didn’t win the title, falling to UConn 76-59, fans celebrated the Aztecs' historic March Madness run. -
For the 29th year in a row faith leaders, human rights groups and migrant activists celebrated La Posada Sin Fronteras. -
For the 29th year in a row faith leaders, human rights groups and migrant activists celebrate La Posada Sin Fronteras, a traditional Christmas holiday party at the binational Friendship Park. The park is facing possible closure as the Biden administration contemplates building an addition to the already existing border wall, first proposed by the Trump administration. If completed the addition would effectively close the American half of the park. -
A youth boxing program in Vista got displaced from its gym last year. But that didn't stop them from boxing. -
Supporters of Friendship Park marked the 51st anniversary of its inauguration on Saturday. -
Thousands of San Diegans turned out to participate in this year's Pride Parade, the first since the beginning of the COVID pandemic.
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Hundreds of Afghans have come to San Diego since last August, but many still need a permanent immigration status. -
In 2012, President Barack Obama designated March 29 as Vietnam War Veterans Day. A ceremony to honor military personnel who served in the Vietnam War was held at Miramar National Cemetery. -
The state is projecting K-12 public school enrollment in California will drop 9% by the end of the decade. That's a loss of 500,000 students.
- San Diego’s abandoned California Theatre faces deadline to sell or demolish
- Communities respond to ICE arrests near San Diego schools
- The U.S. confirms its first human case of New World screwworm. What is it?
- San Diego Zoo mural honors 3 beloved animals lost in 1 week
- Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art