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
The storm was just too long for Jack Pelton to ride out. For the past decade, the chairman, president and CEO of Cessna Aircraft was a force in business aviation, taking up the industry’s battle in Washington when President Barack Obama and members of Congress singled out corporate jets as a symbol of excess to score political points. And for a time, the amiable salesman could do no wrong, with Cessna accounting for more than half of the profits at parent company Textron in 2006 and 2007.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Beijing ), Michael Mecham (Beijing )
Even as China purchases from the West, it wants to compete with it, and to that end the Chinese have striven to make commercial jets for two decades. In the 1990s, the Europeans were favored partners for a 70-seat regional jet, although the Chinese teamed with McDonnell Douglas on the 130-seat Trunkliner program assembling MD-80 and MD-90s in Shanghai. The new programs stalled for years; few sales came from the Trunkliner. But with each effort, China's aircraft industry has learned more about how to compete and what sells in the West.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Beijing), Michael Mecham (Beijing )
Guan Dong Yuan, president of Embraer China, lays out a compelling case regarding the need for smaller passenger jets in this fast-growing economy. China may be the world's second-largest aviation market, but it is still maturing and highly concentrated in the most prosperous cities.