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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Some video games are more than violent, they have literary and educational value. -
Have you ever wondered how much your child's teacher earns? How about the school custodian or principal? Now you can find out; except for San Diego Unified.
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San Diego State University is trying to trademark the "I Believe That We Will Win" cheer; Naval Academy says not so fast. -
As conflict rages in the Middle East, 45 Israeli and Palestinian teens came together along the Mexican border to work for peace. -
Tim Glover, who this month became interim superintendent at Sweetwater Unified High School District, will make $25,000 less a year than his predecessor. -
One San Diego man survives revolution in his home country of Ethiopia, divorce and business failure, all while raising not one but two Bill and Melinda Gates scholars.
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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. -
A new bill passed by the state legislature on Wednesday bans the use of private prisons and detention centers in California. For San Diego that could mean finding a different place to keep more than a thousand detained migrants.
- Thousands of adoptees were never given US citizenship. Now they risk deportation
- Emily Brontë, Kate Bush and a classic novel celebrated in The Most 'Wuthering Heights' Day Ever
- California steps in to keep LGBTQ+ crisis line alive after federal cuts
- Debt-free at a tech job: How the powerful UC system lands students at Apple and Google
- The USDA wants states to hand over food stamp data by the end of July