Jennifer Bowman

San Diego

Assistant Editor at inewsource

Assistant editor at @inewsource. San Diego-raised. 🇵🇭 Not here often -- email me: [email protected]

Articles

Head Start allies wait, worry about possible funding cuts

3 weeks ago | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

By Diana Lambert, EdSourceThis story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Head Start supporters were relieved when President Donald Trump did not include funding cuts to the early education program in his proposed 2026 budget, released May 2. But that does not mean Head Start will emerge from budget negotiations unscathed.
How Trump's budget would hit CA education funding

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

By John Fensterwald, Diana Lambert, Emma Gallegos and Zaidee Stavely, EdSourceThis story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. President Donald Trump would maintain funding levels for students with disabilities and for Title I aid for low-income students while wiping out long-standing programs serving migrant children, teachers in training, college-bound students, English learners and adult learners in the education budget for fiscal 2026.
3 years later, our VVSD reporting is still making an impact

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

Sometimes the impact of our reporting comes swiftly. Other times, it looks more like a slow drip. In the most recent case, evidence of our impact was spread across the pages of a government watchdog report. We recently got word about the new federal report that flagged inadequate oversight of Veterans Village of San Diego, the nationally renowned rehabilitation center on Pacific Highway. inewsource is mentioned in the 55-page report 19 times.
Escondido will have CA's first fire-resistant neighborhood

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

AI-assisted narration In this story we used an AI narration tool to help us meet our accessibility standards and provide our journalism to people who prefer to engage with an audio format. We carefully selected this tool after making sure it operates in a way that would meet our editorial and ethical standards.
How federal cuts are already affecting disabled students in CA

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

AI-assisted narration In this story we used an AI narration tool to help us meet our accessibility standards and provide our journalism to people who prefer to engage with an audio format. We carefully selected this tool after making sure it operates in a way that would meet our editorial and ethical standards.
Amplify South Bay is about to launch. Here’s what to know.

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

On Tuesday, we launch Amplify South Bay — a newsletter powered by our fact-checked community and investigative reporting and our San Diego Documenters program. We can’t wait to hear what you think. We’ve spoken with our neighbors, and heard over and over again: Across San Diego County, residents are looking for news that’s laser focused on their neighborhoods. So we’re starting in South County, where we’ve already steadily grown our coverage in recent years.
A guide to CA’s sexually violent predator program

Mar 4, 2025 | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

They are known as sexually violent predators, or SVP for short.
Where support grew for Trump — and what we learned

Jan 17, 2025 | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

In San Ysidro, a dad told us he was scared. Locals in southeast San Diego said their neighbors wanted independence from either political party. And neighboring Imperial County, a usually reliably blue region, went for Donald Trump. The November election saw voter shifts as fewer residents voted for the Democratic presidential candidate than in the two elections before that. And while now President-elect Trump mostly held his coalition, he saw gains in some communities where Democrats lost ground.
How Documenters led our community-powered reporting in 2024

Dec 27, 2024 | inewsource.org | Jennifer Bowman

Hi there. It’s Jennifer, inewsource’s assistant editor and proud South Bay resident. This year, we again saw early on how powerful reporting can be when we focus on providing news not just about, but for communities. Our San Diego Documenters program sent trained citizens to nearly 160 public meetings across the region in 2024, many of them held by lower-level committees that see little attendance — and news coverage — but where major decisions are discussed for the first time.
Coronado will receive $6 million allocation from Port of San Diego’s budget surplus

Nov 27, 2024 | inewsource.org | San Diego Documenters |Jennifer Bowman

The Port of San Diego’s budget is in surplus this year, and $6 million of it will be allocated to Coronado projects. Parts of Coronado’s shoreline is managed under trust by the San Diego Unified Port District, which was formed in 1962. At that time, some tidelands and submerged lands were reassigned from their respective cities to the port. By law, the lands must be used for purposes that serve the public good.