Yanny vs. Laurel

By Mike Kiniry,

Julie Glenn, Rachel Iacovone, Richard Chin Quee

Published May 16, 2018 at 11:36 AM EDT

Richard Conducting the Experiment on Engineer Mike Stepp

We get a bit of an audio lesson from Gulf Coast Live’s director, Richard Chin Quee, who is also the interim director of programming and promotion at WGCU. Has the YANNY/LAUREL conundrum crossed your ears yet? It’s the latest version of the blue dress/gold dress phenomenon that went viral a few years back. Richard loves all things audio, and all things random and geeky, so we had him do a few experiments with some of our staff members and debrief us on what he uncovered.

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Mike Kiniry

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Julie Glenn

(1971 - 2022)

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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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Richard Chin Quee

rchin@wgcu.org

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