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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Gov. Ron DeSantis announced yet another executive order on Thursday. In his second visit to Southwest Florida in as many days, DeSantis came to Ida S.… -
Gov. Ron DeSantis gave a sneak peek at one of the most highly anticipated line items on the upcoming state budget recommendation on Tuesday during his… -
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day March drew hundreds to downtown Fort Myers on Monday.Caroline Massey Harden stood outside Dunbar-Jupiter Hammon… -
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The excavation of arsenic-laden sludge from a city landfill in Fort Myers' Dunbar community began Thursday.In decades past, the city had used the site to… -
New information about whale shark behavior, biology, and ecology is being released today in the scientific journal BioScience. The 22 year long… -
Florida has the most invasive species of any state in the country, and half of the insects, reptiles, arachnids and crustaceans imported into the United…
