Someone who is blind really can be a TV reporter, says Nas Campanella

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Demystifying the world of disability is high on Nas Campanella’s list of priorities, as too is showing the public that a blind person can be a TV reporter.

“I think it’s really important that we do show faces like mine on TV, that maybe have eyes that don’t look like other people’s eyes,” says Nas Campanella. “We live in a community that’s made up of so many different people and TV needs to reflect that. It’s about normalising it and reflecting the community we live in.“

Campanella and Oriti met in the national broadcaster’s Bega newsroom more than a decade ago. Oriti’s able to rattle off quite a comprehensive list of things he was attracted to about her but her skills as a journalist and her determination to master a form – live news reads – that at first glance would seem impossible impressed him deeply. “She’s fiercely independent,” he says. “Very determined. And she can read people very well. She’s able to make people feel comfortable, and to talk to anyone.

And that the disability community is one amorphous mass. “But not everyone is a paralympian. I’m certainly not! I think what’s really important is for people to realise the community is made up of 4.4 million people and each and every single one is an individual, and wants individual things.”

 

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I have profound respect for this lady!

Why would you want to take part in a visual medium you can't see? I get representation but not being able to appreciate your own work is kind of wrong.

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Given that RobertDowneyJr has recently admitted he uses an earwig (people read him his lines through an earpiece on film so he doesn’t have to learn them), there’s absolutely no reason the same can’t be done for TV reporting.

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