Joe Anselmo

Editorial Director, Aviation Week Network

Washington, DC

Summary

Joe Anselmo has been Editorial Director of the Aviation Week Network and Editor-in-Chief of Aviation Week & Space Technology since 2013. Based in Washington, D.C., he directs a team of more than two dozen aerospace journalists across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Under his leadership, Aviation Week has won numerous accolades for its in-depth reporting and deep dives into aerospace technology, including the 2017 Grand Neal award for “Top Brand/Overall Editorial Excellence,” business-to-business journalism’s equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Writers from the Aviation Week Network also took home six honors at the 2018 Aerospace Media Awards in London.

In 2015, Anselmo and his team spearheaded a digital initiative that provides subscribers with fresh content every day via mobile phones, tablets, or desktop computers. To mark Aviation Week’s 100th anniversary in 2016, the publication’s entire archive – more than 440,000 pages of articles, images, covers and advertisements – was digitized into a searchable online archive. Aviation Week also has accelerated its push into digital media with regular podcasts, videos, data features, infographics and eBooks.

Anselmo has more than 25 years of experience as an editor and reporter with Aviation Week, Congressional Quarterly and the Washington Post Company. He has won three Aerospace Journalist of the Year awards. A graduate of Ohio University, he was elected three times to the National Press Club’s Board of Governors, including one term as board chairman.

 

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Articles

Joseph C. Anselmo
Hans-Peter Ring, EADS's CFO, arrived in New York last week for meetings with institutional investors and analysts in the middle of a stock market meltdown. “Obviously the markets feel that there is [the threat of] a double-dip recession,” he says. But if that does happen, Ring is confident the company's Airbus unit is prepared.

Joseph C. Anselmo
NEW YORK — EADS remains interested in making defense acquisitions in the U.S., but high prices and uncertainty over future budgets could stand in the way. While the European aerospace giant has made several major purchases this year – including a recently announced $960 million deal to buy mobile satellite services provider Vizada – it has yet to pull the trigger on a big acquisition that would move it closer to the goal of increasing its U.S. revenues sevenfold to $10 billion annually by 2020.

Joseph C. Anselmo
The chief financial officer of Airbus’s parent company says a huge order backlog will protect the airframer if economic turmoil throws the U.S. and Europe back into recession. EADS CFO Hans-Peter Ring notes that his company is sitting on orders worth more than $450 billion. That includes a commercial backlog of more than 4,000 jets at Airbus—the equivalent of seven and one-half years of production at current rates.