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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The rise in opioid-related deaths in recent years has prompted Gov. Rick Scott and President Donald Trump to declare state and national emergencies.… -
The Florida Division of Forestry plans to conduct a Greenway Wildfire burnout Thursday afternoon around 2 p.m.The Greenway Fire was started last… -
As of this week, Lee County is now home to two medical marijuana dispensaries.Michael Costa guided visitors through the front lobby of Curaleaf Tuesday… -
Lee County’s second medical marijuana dispensary opened yesterday.In the 16 months since Amendment 2 passed in Florida, a company called Curaleaf has… -
We recently received a Curious Gulf Coast question wondering what the deal was with all the dog racing in Florida. So we brought in historian Jim Powers… -
The practice of gerrymandering has been around since the founding of the United States, and has always been at least to some degree a partisan affair.… -
When President George W. Bush asked New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to travel North Korea on a diplomatic mission he took a group of experts with him.… -
We're joined by Dr. Dawn Gelino, she’s Deputy Director of the Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. She’s on… -
Today marks the 45th annual National Ag Day, a time to reflect on where our food comes from.But, the University of Florida Institute of Food and… -
Last week we hosted an event in our TV studio called Civil Discourse in a Polarized Society. It was the culmination of a partnership with Gulfshore Life…
