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

Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington), Guy Norris (Los Angeles)
More than four weeks after the 11th-hour cancellation of the maiden flight of the 787, Boeing’s leaders are not providing basic details about how the problem of a failed wing test will be corrected and when the new jet will fly.

Joseph C. Anselmo
CHAIRMAN OUSTED: Military microwave components supplier Herley Industries replaced Myron Levy as chairman and CEO and announced a new focus on bolstering revenues and profits. David Lieberman, a New York lawyer and longtime board member, becomes chairman. Richard Poirier, general manager of the company’s New England operations, will become CEO. Levy had worked for Herley since 1988 and was promoted to the top job after the company was indicted for trying to defraud the government on military contracts.

Joseph C. Anselmo, Michael Mecham
Boeing posted a 17% gain in second-quarter net income and eked out a 1% sales increase, beating Wall Street’s consensus forecast and bucking the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Unfortunately, most investors remained fixated on something the company couldn’t deliver — an update on how long the first flight of its troubled 787 jet will be delayed and how much of an impact that will have on future earnings.