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 )
As 2009 drew to a close last week, the news media were full of articles lamenting the stock market’s “lost decade.” The tumultuous ‘00s were far from a lost cause for aerospace and defense stocks, however. Shares in many A&D companies doubled, tripled or even quadrupled in value. Airline stocks were a different story, but let’s start with the good news.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington )
Newly declassified documents show the inner workings of President Gerald Ford’s White House on the momentous matter of what to name the first space shuttle orbiter, the one used for approach and landing tests. The documents are part of a series on “global issues” that the State Dept. is required to release to provide comprehensive documentation of “major foreign policy decisions.” How this relates to foreign policy or why it was ever classified is not explained. In a 1976 decision memorandum for the president, aide William F.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington )
Washington and Moscow continue to haggle over a successor to the 1994 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (Start), which expired on Dec. 5. Both governments acknowledged last week they would miss a self-imposed deadline to agree on a follow-on to Start by Dec. 31. But State Dept. officials remain confident a new treaty will be signed after talks resume in mid-January. “It’s very, very complex,” spokesman Philip Crowley says. “We’ve made progress. We think we’re in a pretty good position.” But while U.S.