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
A sharp rebound in the price of oil to more than $60 a barrel recently has analysts scratching their heads. With the International Energy Agency and the U.s. Energy Information Administration lowering their forecasts for demand amid a global recession, how could crude prices – which were less than $34 three months ago – rise so high, so fast? Virgin Atlantic President Richard Branson believes price manipulation is the only explanation.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
A sharp rebound in the price of oil to more than $60 a barrel last week is putting new financial pressure on the airline industry, which already is hobbled by declines in passenger and cargo demand. The increase also has analysts scratching their heads. With the International Energy Agency and U.S. Energy Information Administration lowering their forecasts for demand amid a global recession, how could crude prices—which were less than $34 three months ago—rise so high, so fast?

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
At the start of the decade, commercial space imagery was supposed to be a blockbuster industry. Spurred by a Clinton administration directive that permitted satellite operators to sell high-resolution images with virtually no restrictions, companies such as Ball Aerospace, Orbital Sciences Corp., Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Co. poured hundreds of millions of dollars into new ventures. Wall Street analysts predicted that a flood of demand from the commercial sector would boost industry revenues to $2.5 billion annually.