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WGCU News Wins 2018 National Murrow Award

Listen to a compilation of WGCU News' National Murrow Award-winning coverage during Hurricane Irma.

The Radio Television Digital News Association has awarded the WGCU News team the national Edward R. Murrow Award for Breaking News Coverage for "Hurricane Irma Hits Southwest Florida." 

This win comes after the team won four Regional Murrow Awards for "High Arsenic Levels in Pine Island Ignored by DEP, Lee County," Investigative Reporting; "Gov. Scott Visits Everglades City, Still Without Power," Hard News; "Experience a 'Dark Sky Park' in Florida," Excellence in Writing; and "City of Fort Myers' Toxic Dumping in Dunbar Neighborhood," Continuing Coverage.

WGCU competes in RTDNA Region 13 (Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands).

Copyright 2018 WGCU

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
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.
John Davis has been a full-time Reporter/Producer for WGCU since 2009. He is the local host for NPRââââ
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Quincy J. Walters is a junior at USF, majoring in English with a concentration in creative writing. His interest in journalism spurred from the desire to convey compelling narratives. He has written for USF’s student paper, The Oracle and is currently the videographer for Creative Pinellas. If he’s not listening to NPR, he’s probably listening to Randy Newman.