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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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.
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