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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Tourism is a multibillion dollar industry on both sides of the border, and the largest tourism conference in Mexico is underway in Rosarito this week. -
While San Diego is skipping official events, Tijuana embraces UNESCO's International Jazz Day with concerts and deep musical roots that resonate on both sides of the border. -
According to the San Diego History Center, at the turn of the century, the corner of 5th Avenue and E Street in downtown San Diego was known as “Soapbox Corner." -
Volunteer-run mobile library helps kids discover love for reading in communities South of the borderA volunteer-run mobile library helps kids discover love for reading in communities south of the border. -
San Diego County supervisors will vote Tuesday on whether to extend its deadline for adopting a budget. KPBS metro reporter Andrew Bowen says it comes amid uncertainty over federal funding. -
Students across the district walked out of class Tuesday to protest potential layoffs of librarians, teachers, psychologists and vice principals.
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President Donald Trump is openly challenging U.S. allies by increasing tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25% as he vows to take back wealth he says was “stolen” by other countries, drawing quick retaliation from Europe and Canada. -
Protesters are demanding the Trump administration do more to fight climate change. -
San Diego’s unsafe camping ordinance prohibits tent camping in public spaces. To avoid frequent encampment cleanup, some homeless San Diegans are moving to freeways, making it harder — and more dangerous — for outreach workers to reach them.
- Two San Diego nonprofits are poised to lose promised environmental justice grants — but the EPA has yet to tell them
- Bob Filner, disgraced ex-mayor of San Diego, dies at 82
- Trump administration considers immigration detention on Bay Area military base, records show
- San Diego County releases dashboard compiling on South County sewage
- California sent investigators to ICE facilities. They found more detainees, and health care gaps