Rachel Iacovone
RachelIacovoneis a reporter and associate producer of Gulf Coast LiveforWGCU News. Rachel came toWGCU as an intern in 2016, . She went on to cover Florida Gulf Coast University students at President Donald Trump's on Capitol Hill and Southwest Floridians in attendance at the following day's .
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 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 .
As a WGCU reporter, she produced the first radio story inWGCU's Curious Gulf Coast project, which answered the question:
Rachel graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's degree in journalism.
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While nesting numbers of endangered green sea turtles in Florida can vary from year to year, the broader trend over the past few decades shows a marked... -
Temporary Protected Status has once again been extended for four groups in the U.S. 鈥� El Salvadorans, Hondurans, Sudanese and Haitians. -
Marine life has all been wiped out in the waters surrounding Gasparilla Island. The inlet straddles Charlotte and Lee counties, but the residential part... -
A fatal shooting in Clearwater last month revived the debate over Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law after Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri cited... -
Florida's U.S. Senators 鈥� Democrat Bill Nelson and Republican Marco Rubio 鈥� introduced legislation Thursday to extend the stay of some Canadian citizens... -
Days away from the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season and days after subtropical storm Alberto made landfall in Florida, Everglades City... -
A University of Florida researcher has found three species of mosquitoes feeding on Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades. Lawrence Reeves, a post... -
The Trump Administration announced its decision Monday night to end Temporary Protected Status , or TPS, for the nearly 50 thousand Haitian nationals... -
The practice of shark finning 鈥� removing a shark鈥檚 dorsal fin and discarding the animal鈥檚 body back into the water 鈥� has been in the political spotlight... -
(Update: The Cape Coral Republican Club Facebook page says 200 people attended the rally.) A group of President Donald Trump's supporters rallied in... -
Boycotters showed their presence through the lack of it for 鈥淎 Day Without Immigrants鈥� last Thursday. Friday, they returned, showing a very strong... -
As Florida Gulf Coast University begins interviewing candidates for the school鈥檚 next president this week, a state representative has proposed a bill...
