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Lydia Defranchi is an award-winning television news reporter based in Casper, Wyoming. In February 2012, she was awarded third place in the Television Broadcast News Competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.

Early Life
Defranchi was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, on September 30, 1988 to a French father and an American mother. She is a native speaker of English and French and also speaks Spanish. Defranchi attended high school at le lycée François Magendie in Bordeaux, France.

College Education
Defranchi left France in 2007 to attend college at Brigham Young University. While at BYU, Defranchi studied Broadcast Journalism and danced with the BYU Ballroom Dance Company. As a journalism student, Defranchi worked as a reporter, producer, and anchor for the school's daily news program, ElevenNews at Noon. She graduated in April 2012.

Professional Career
While a student at BYU, Defranchi worked as the morning news anchor for Classical 89 KBYU FM and interned at KSL News (Salt Lake City). Additionally, she regularly produced interviews for the Mormon Women Project.

Awards
In February 2012, Defranchi was recognized by the Hearst Foundation for special merit in the field of broadcast journalism. Defranchi earned third place nationally for her work in the 2012 Television News Broadcast Competition of the Hearst Journalism Awards Program.