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 White Racism sociology course being taught at Florida Gulf Coast University this spring has made national headlines since the announcement of it being… -
Are we on the verge of another mass extinction? The last one was when the dinosaurs stopped roaming the earth, and now scientists fear we’re beginning to… -
A small passenger plane crashed earlier this afternoon near Bonita National Golf Course. Lee County Sheriff's Office held a press conference at Fire… -
Acclaimed Sanibel Island artist, social activist and WGCU Maker, Myra Roberts, joins us as we explore works in her newest exhibition, “Dream Peace,” which… -
Global sea levels have risen about eight inches since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Scientific projections show that global sea levels will… -
According to futurist David Houle the world as we know it will be transformed beyond recognition over the decades ahead. He'll present a series of talks… -
In case you hadn't noticed craft beer has kind of taken over the world in recent years. Small breweries are popping up in communities all across the… -
We’re joined by Florida’s CFO Jimmy Patronis to explore what recourse you have if your insurance company still hasn’t covered your hurricane-related… -
As Florida lawmakers convene the second week of the 2018 law-making session, our weekly series of legislative roundtable conversations features a talk… -
As we enter 2018 we're taking a look back at how the endangered Florida panther population fared last year. Biologists say the panther population is…
