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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Two piñatas by Diana Benavídez have been acquired into the Mingei International Museum's permanent collection — and they're currently on view through the end of April. -
The San Diego State University's men’s basketball team made their city proud Monday night. Thousands of fans crowded into Viejas Arena to watch the Aztecs face the University of Connecticut Huskies in the NCAA National Championships. Before tip-off the scene outside the arena was chaotic as fans tried to get inside.
Although SDSU didn’t win the title, falling to UConn 76-59, fans celebrated the Aztecs' historic March Madness run. -
For the 29th year in a row faith leaders, human rights groups and migrant activists celebrated La Posada Sin Fronteras. -
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.
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When American-born students move to Mexico and enroll in local schools, officials say language can be a major barrier. -
Search-and-rescue teams looking for a hiker who got lost on Black Mountain over the weekend found a body believed to be that of the missing woman Monday. -
With the end of the program, those residents still in the program will need to move back home or make other arrangements with their local housing authorities.
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls on Marine Corps to pause contract with Oceanside-based Frontwave Credit Union
- University of San Diego faculty on strike Wednesday and Thursday
- San Diego County Supervisors OK plans for 2 affordable housing projects
- Cardinal Robert Prevost becomes the first American pope, choosing the name Leo XIV
- Pilot error cited as root cause of helicopter crash that killed 5 Marines