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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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. -
Abortion rights supporters across San Diego have taken to the streets to protest the U.S. Supreme Court decision to reverse Roe v. Wade on Friday. -
On Saturday morning thousands of San Diegans rallied and marched for women's reproductive rights in downtown San Diego.
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A man who killed his estranged wife and three of his four children in Paradise Hills before turning the gun on himself sent his former romantic partner a picture of a handgun with the message "It's sure happening" about two weeks before the shooting rampage, according to court documents obtained Monday. -
An ambitious effort to boost the number and size of trees in the city of San Diego faces a difficult timetable. -
KPBS Midday EditionWhile the proposition never took effect, Proposition 187 ushered in a generation of immigrant activists that has transformed the California.
- San Diego County estimates 400,000 Medi-Cal, CalFresh recipients could lose benefits
- A crisis team responding to a suicide attempt asked for help, El Cajon Police refused
- LEGO's Comic-Con diorama turns the San Diego Convention Center into a mini masterpiece
- A man is halted climbing the US-Mexico border wall. Under new Trump rules, US troops sound the alarm
- Fearing lawsuits, El Cajon Police stopped responding to some mental health calls