2019 Festival of Open Minds, Nas Campanella
Episode 15, Sep 26, 2019, 11:41 PM
Nas Campanella is a journalist and radio newsreader with the ABC and Triple J.
She lost her sight when she was six months old. Nas also has a sensitivity condition which means she can’t read Braille.
Winning an ABC cadetship in 2011, Nas spent her first-year news gathering and reading in here in Bega at ABC South East.
In 2013 Nas joined Triple J, where she produces, writes and reads the news several times a day.
Nas Campanella is the only blind radio newsreader in the world.
Sound recording by Gerry Corcoran at the Bega Valley Commemorative Civic Centre. 'People with Oomph' written and performed by Damon Davies.
Sound recording by Gerry Corcoran at the Bega Valley Commemorative Civic Centre. 'People with Oomph' written and performed by Damon Davies.