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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More than 200 union workers picketed over the contract negotiations with the nonprofit that runs Head Start programs in North County. Workers say a plan to raise their insurance costs will cut their pay to below minimum wage. -
After 10 months of labor negotiations, San Diego Unified School District and its teachers union declared an impasse. -
A celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math, or STEAM, is on tap this Sunday in Balboa Park. -
Janet Napolitano was in San Diego Thursday to visit a community garden that serves as a research center, pollution remover and community center. -
The Best Coast Beer Fest will bring 72 breweries together Saturday for a festival that will raise money for charity. -
STEAM, which stands for education in science, technology, engineering, art and math, is the new movement. Two organizations were honored for their efforts in promoting STEAM.
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Fischer was initially charged with 20 criminal counts that included assault, burglary, forcing oral sex and sexual battery. But his plea deal with the DA did not include the two sex crime charges he faced. -
KPBS Midday EditionMembers of the California National Guard have always had a role in fighting wildfires, but now there is a task force working year-round on fire prevention efforts. -
KPBS Midday EditionHigher temperatures caused by climate change mean California’s all-important snowpack in the Sierra Nevada mountains is smaller and melts faster than it did in the past. As a result, forests are dryer for longer and more prone to wildfire.
- Get back to nature — with a sprinkle of history — at Felicita Park
- FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
- Israeli settlers beat U.S. citizen to death in West Bank
- Despite Wimbledon loss, US tennis star Taylor Fritz inspires in his hometown
- Escondido sees a budget surplus thanks to Measure I