 Kapalos began her career in her home town of Newcastle, New South Wales, as a reporter for ABC Radio in 1994, a journalist at 2HD & NEW FM before moving to television with SBS in Sydney.She returned to Newcastle, where she worked both as an award-winning reporter and news presenter for NBN Television News.In 2002, Kapalos went back to national broadcasting and joined the Nine Network where she worked as both a reporter and news presenter.