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
Will heads roll at Boeing Co.? Speculation is rife after the sixth delay to the 787 jet’s first flight embarrassed company leaders and called into question whether the program’s dysfunctional management has really been fixed (see p. 24). Airlines and investors are seething about the slip after being assured throughout the Paris air show that the wide-body jet was expected to fly by June 30. Morgan Stanley now estimates first deliveries of the 787, originally set for May 2008, could slip into 2011.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Investors are speculating whether heads will roll at Boeing after the sixth delay to the 787 jet’s first flight embarrassed company leaders and left airline customers seething. Boeing made assurances throughout the Paris Air Show, which ended June 21, that first flight was on track to occur by June 30 before abruptly announcing the setback on June 23. No new flight date has been set, but Morgan Stanley now estimates that first deliveries, originally scheduled in May 2008, could slip into 2011.

Joseph C. Anselmo, Robert Wall
PARIS — A longtime goal of EADS NV CEO Louis Gallois has been to lessen the company’s reliance on Airbus by expanding its defense business — emulating arch-rival Boeing — but ironically, the current economic downturn is forcing the European aerospace giant to shelve plans for major acquisitions in the U.S. defense market.