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

Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. (Chicago), Joseph C. Anselmo (Chicago)
The subject of innovation is a passion of Boeing Chairman, President and CEO James McNerney. In a interview with AW&ST Editor-in-Chief Anthony L. Velocci, Jr., and Senior Business Editor Joseph C. Anselmo, he outlines his definition of innovation and explains why it is about much more than technical capability. AW&ST: What have you found to be the most meaningful measure of innovation?
Air Transport

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
A recent deal struck in the U.S. Congress to continue funding development of an alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, despite objections from President Barack Obama and a vote by the Senate to kill it, was a great victory for General Electric Co. Last week, EADS N.V. tapped the man who runs GE Aviation’s Washington operation, former NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe, to fill a key post as it gears up with partner Northrop Grumman Corp. to battle Boeing Co.—again—for the U.S. Air Force’s $35-billion tanker aircraft contract.

Graham Warwick (Washington), Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
At first glance, it appears that the term “innovation” is used too freely in aerospace—every incremental improvement in a product, process or service is trumpeted as such. Where are the discoveries and breakthroughs that marked the first century of aviation? They are there, is the answer, but not where they once were to be found. Aerospace and defense contractors can no longer afford standing armies of scientists, so they are forging close relationships with universities and acquiring innovative small companies as they cast their net wider for new ideas.