Julianne Pepitone

senior technology writer

Julianne is the senior technology writer for NBC News Digital, covering large consumer tech companies’ (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc.) news and trends, as well as cybersecurity. She also writes and appears in original videos for NBCNews.com, and speaks as an expert guest on live shows across the NBC and MSNBC networks. 
She previously worked at CNNMoney.com where she covered large techs from a business angle, as well as the intersection of the tech and media industries. 
In addition to NBC and CNN online properties, Julianne has written for several national magazines and online publications including Esquire, Self, Popular Mechanics and Cosmopolitan.


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Julianne Pepitone

4years ago
Career Growth

She was told she didn’t ‘look like a maestro.’ So this conductor started her own orchestra.

Renowned music director Jeri Lynne Johnson channeled her rage from an audition rejection by creating the diverse, critically acclaimed Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in Philadelphia.

4years ago
Career Growth

This architect went from creating luxury malls to imagining a world without prisons

Deanna Van Buren increasingly felt called to use her talents to create true change in the world around her. Now, she designs restorative justice spaces that promote healing instead of punishment.

4years ago
Know Your Value

Her child died after swallowing a button battery. She has a holiday plea to parents.

“The most important thing to me is for no other child to go through what Reese went through,” Trista Hamsmith tells Know Your Value.

4years ago
Know Your Value

New poll shows Latinas making massive strides in entrepreneurship, homeownership and more

Despite facing disproportionate economic impact from Covid-19, Latinas are pushing ahead and creating opportunities for themselves.

4years ago
Know Your Value

How this woman beat the odds and rose to the top at the Office of the Surgeon General

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Nancy Santiago, deputy director of engagement for America’s chief health educator, shares her journey.

5years ago
Know Your Value

How to judge a company’s real attitude toward diversity and inclusion

Sophia Ahmad, chief marketing officer at Xfinity Consumer Services, explains how you can get beyond the buzzwords and find out if there is action and intention behind a company.

5years ago
Know Your Value

How I reclaimed my identity after setting aside my Hollywood career for full-time parenting

Shannon Kenny Carbonell details what it was like to give up her dream of being an actress in order to move to Hawaii as her husband actor Néstor Carbonell filmed the hit TV series “Lost.”

5years ago
Know Your Value

This mom is turning grief into action after her toddler died from swallowing a button battery

As Mother’s Day approaches, Trista Hamsmith is doing everything in her power to prevent a similar tragedy from ever occurring again.

5years ago
Know Your Value

WWE’s Stephanie McMahon: ‘Women belong in any room they want to be in’

She works in an industry dominated by men — and a business dominated by McMahons. In managing both of those aspects, Stephanie McMahon has come to know her value and help other women to recognize theirs.

5years ago
Know Your Value

Mika’s top-7 tips for college women preparing to enter the workforce

Mika Brzezinski laid out a career roadmap for young women on Wednesday during a keynote address at the annual Women’s History Month Luncheon hosted by the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware.