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 agreement reached after an all-night negotiation session includes raises and increases the maximum an employee will pay for health coverage. -
The new law allows the California chancellor of community colleges to choose 15 community colleges to be the first in the state to offer bachelor's degrees. -
San Diego Mesa College is spending $54 million to build two new buildings on campus. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego County is in line with national numbers showing the number of homeless students enrolled in public school is on the rise. There are 20,000 homeless students in San Diego County. -
San Diego's Convention Center is hosting 3,000 educators as they work to encourage more girls and woman to study science, technology, engineering and math, at the second STEM Symposium. -
On the whole, San Diego County's sophomores beat the state average when it comes to passing the high school exit exam, but an achievement gap persists.
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KPBS Midday EditionLast school year, districts in San Diego and Imperial counties had to hire more than 700 teachers who had not yet finished their training. Where many see a troubling trend, others see a promising solution. -
The local event, which coincided with marches around the world, was pitched as a nonpartisan demonstration in support of science and against its increasing politicization. -
KPBS Midday EditionHugo Castro is in stable condition after being found Tuesday in Tlalnepantla de Baz, a city just north of Mexico City. Castro disappeared Thursday, after posting an appeal for help on Facebook Live.
- Experts concerned about white nationalist imagery in ICE recruitment materials
- New Terminal 1 at San Diego Airport opens to passengers
- Ramona cemetery district board member uncovers unusual compensation records
- Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him up
- Animal shelter supervisor ‘out of the office’ after revelation of profane recording