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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KPBS Midday EditionThe success of a discipline program at Crawford High School has students asking for an expansion. -
College students from universities as far flung as India are competing in the 18th International RoboSub Competition. -
Special Olympics athletes and coaches came to San Diego on Tuesday as they prepare for the World Games in Los Angeles. They will join more than 6,000 other athletes from 165 countries. -
The Metropolitan Transit System board of directors unanimously voted to enter into a 30-year agreement giving UCSD naming rights to two on-campus trolley stops. -
Voices for Children is the first group of its kind to be awarded the Human Rights Campaign's "All Children - All Families" seal of recognition. -
A new app is being billed as"Uber for queueing up," and it's helping costumed superheroes and their fans at San Diego's annual pop cultural festival.
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KPBS Midday EditionAgencies in Los Angeles know former gang members and the formerly incarcerated are some of the best equipped to help break the cycles of violence and incarceration in urban communities. Now a class at Alliant University is aiming to professionalize the craft here in San Diego. -
KPBS Midday EditionLocal faith leaders held a press conference Friday to take a stand against racism in the wake of the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. -
Many parents enroll in English-language courses so they can help their kids with school. The federal government wants to see more of them use the classes to get jobs or go to college.
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