Nas Campanella

Nas Campanella is an Australian journalist. She is the National Disability Affairs Reporter for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and frequently appears on ABC News. She lost her sight at the age of six months and has been a news reporter for ABC since 2011.

Career Campanella earned a degree in communications at the University of Technology Sydney. After University, she joined the ABC as a cadet journalist in Sydney in 2011. Her first job was as a regional reporter and newsreader in Bega, and then in 2013 she became a newsreader for Triple J. In 2020 she became the ABC's first Disability Affairs Reporter. She also suffers from Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease, meaning she is unable to read Braille.

Personal life Nas was born in 1989, and grew up in Western Sydney in a large Australian-Italian family. She was also awarded the title "Confident Changemake of the Year" at the 2022 "Australian Network on Disability and Disability Confidence Awards.