Rachel Iacovone
RachelIacovoneis a reporter and associate producer of Gulf 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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Florida Gulf Coast University announced its first partnership for its new Water School on Thursday. -
As the partial government shutdown approaches the one-month mark, members of one branch of the military are feeling its effects particularly hard: the... -
Marine life has all been wiped out in the waters surrounding Gasparilla Island. The inlet straddles Charlotte and Lee counties, but the residential part... -
Hurricane season is officially underway. This week on Florida Matters we'll talk with weather experts and hear stories about how communities across the… -
Hurricane season is officially underway. This week on Florida Matters we'll talk with weather experts and hear stories about how communities across the…
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A study was recently published by an associate professor of social work at Florida Gulf Coast University , and it looks at how the people living in... -
A shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County Wednesday afternoon has resulted in 17 deaths. This is the 18th school shooting in... -
A University of Florida researcher has found three species of mosquitoes feeding on Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades. Lawrence Reeves, a post... -
Florida Gulf Coast University hosted the president of the American Sociological Association last week for a talk on colorblind racism in the Trump era.... -
The White Racism sociology course being taught at Florida Gulf Coast University this spring has made national headlines since the announcement of it...
