Rachel Iacovone
Rachel Iacovone is a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast Live for WGCU News. Rachel came to WGCU as an intern in 2016, during the presidential race. She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's Women's March on Washington.
Rachel was first contacted by WGCU when she was managing editor of FGCU's student-run media group, Eagle News. She helped take Eagle News from a weekly newspaper to a daily online publication with TV and radio branches within two years, winning the 2016 Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Use of Multimedia in a cross-platform series she led for National Coming Out Day. She also won the Mark of Excellence Award for Feature Writing for her five-month coverage of an FGCU student's transition from male to female.
As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story in WGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question: Does SWFL Have More Cases of Pediatric Cancer?
Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
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Live from WGCU News, I’m Rachel Iacovone, and today is the last time you’ll hear me say that. I am moving to the morning shift to be the John Davis (aka… -
Florida Gulf Coast University's Student Government is rolling out a new program to help students in dangerous situations at bars and nightlife… -
While nesting numbers of endangered green sea turtles in Florida can vary from year to year, the broader trend over the past few decades shows a marked… -
Once it’s completed, the massive Caloosahatchee River West Basin Storage, or C-43 reservoir, near Alva will hold about 55 billion gallons of water… -
Uriel Martinez, 22, was riding in the passenger seat of his friend’s car – an hour’s drive north of his hometown of Immokalee.The Florida Highway Patrol… -
The fourth-annual BabeFest returns to Fort Myers on Friday, May 24. The music festival celebrates diversity in the arts with a full lineup of… -
The Radio Television Digital News Association has awarded the WGCU News team a regional Edward R. Murrow Award for Continuing Coverage for "Two… -
The WGCU News team won 11 awards in the Florida Associated Press Broadcasters Awards competition for its work in 2018, topping last year's total of 10.The… -
Florida Gulf Coast University announced its first partnership for its new Water School on Thursday. It’s official. Mote Marine Laboratory and FGCU have… -
April is National Sexually Transmitted Disease Awareness Month, and more than a dozen locations in Southwest Florida are offering free STD and HIV…
