Rachel Iacovone
RachelIacovoneis a reporter and associate producer ofGulf Coast LiveforWGCU News. Rachel came toWGCU 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 inWGCU'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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As WGCU News has been reporting this week, the Florida Legislature’s newly approved budget includes severe cuts to cultural affairs programing. The new... -
A month after the mass shooting at a Parkland high school, students across the nation planned to walk out of class in solidarity with victims and... -
Some Southwest Florida students walked out of their classes at 10:00 this morning on the one month anniversary of the day a 19-year-old walked into... -
We're joined by Raney Aronson-Rath , she’s Executive Producer of Frontline , one of public television’s most critically acclaimed, and long-running... -
Starting next month, Bailey Tract , a 100-acre part of the J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge , will close for a hydrological restoration effort... -
The Florida Legislature approved a new budget over the weekend that has disheartened arts advocates across the state, including some at a Southwest... -
We’re joined by Kurt Goerke, Director of Health Promotions with the American Lung Association in Florida , to discuss Proposal 94 being considered by... -
We’re joined by author Robert Wheeler to discuss his book, Hemingway’s Havana: A Reflection of the Writer’s Life in Cuba . The book captures the essence...
