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 (Washington ), Madhu Unnikrishnan (Washington )
Foreign Military Sales are becoming a hot new “adjacency” for U.S. military contractors as they look for new sources of growth to offset constrained Pentagon spending. In their quarterly earnings calls last week, defense CEOs were full of enthusiasm about the potential of overseas sales to pump up flattening revenues and declining profit margins. Military consultant James McAleese says the largest U.S. defense contractors are now aiming to generate 25-35% of their sales from foreign customers, up from 10-15% in the days of rapidly rising Pentagon spending.

Joseph C. Anselmo, Michael Mecham
Boeing expects its sales to decline as much as 6% this year as the impact of lower 777 production rates and cuts to military programs sink in. But it also sees a rebound in 2011 as deliveries of new 787 and 747-8 jets begin to ramp up.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Boeing’s defense unit notched its biggest sales gain in several years in 2009, but the company expects to give much of it back as cuts to missile defense and the now-defunct Future Combat Systems program begin to bite.