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 Republican contender for the role of state commissioner of agriculture joined the growing list of candidates filing lawsuits Friday afternoon. Gov.… -
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With exactly one week left until Election Day, the democratic candidate for Florida governor visited predominantly-purple Southwest Florida on… -
With less than a week to go before the midterm elections, President Donald Trump is planning a campaign stop in Estero tonight.People were already lined… -
To read this story in English, click here.Hay más de 13 millones de votantes registrados en Florida.Antes del inicio de la Votación Anticipada la semana…
