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

Guy Norris (Los Angeles), Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington, D.C.), Michael Mecham (San Francisco)
Boeing is preparing to clear wetland forest adjacent to its facility in North Charleston, S.C., following its controversial decision to establish a site there for final assembly of the stretched 787-9 variant.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Business jet utilization has risen 18% since March, another sign that the beleaguered industry is stabilizing. A new UBS Investment Research analysis finds that bizjet flight activity rose in five of the past six months. But takeoffs and landings were still 9% lower in September than a year ago and 27% below their peak in mid-2007. UBS says that while the corporate aircraft market is “stabilizing at lower levels,” it still faces the danger of a prolonged downturn because of significant oversupply.

By William Garvey and Joseph C. Anselmo, Joseph C. Anselmo
The grim realities of the recession or near depression that has slammed business aviation — slowed or halted production lines, thousands of manufacturing and service workers suddenly made jobless, shuttered flight departments and charter operators, and a used aircraft market choked with inventory — are not only with us, but some elements are likely to worsen. However, the absolute worst — the collapse of the entire industry — has not occurred, and it looks like business aviation will climb again. Just as it did after every previous recession.