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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By Joe Anselmo
Key lawmakers are backing Defense Secretary Robert Gates in his opposition to a proposal to split the massive U.S. Air Force refueling tanker contract between Boeing and an EADS/Northrop Grumman team. House Appropriations defense subcommittee chairman John Murtha (D-Pa.) has suggested his panel could add a split- buy measure to the Pentagon’s Fiscal 2010 budget. But Sens.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Bethesda, Md.), Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. (Bethesda, Md.), Madhu Unnikrishnan (Bethesda, Md.)
It would be hard to find an aerospace and defense (A&D) thought leader more respected than Norm Augustine. During the past half century, he has worked as a research engineer, a senior Pentagon official, a CEO who was instrumental in the industry’s great consolidation during the 1990s, a faculty member at Princeton University and chairman of a national Academies’ study on U.S. competitiveness. He holds 23 honorary degrees, and his shrewd business judgments and common sense have been studied by managers in many industries.

By Joe Anselmo
Wichita, Kan. Mayor Carl Brewer has renewed his invitation to President Barack Obama to visit his mother’s home town. Brewer wants the president, who has lambasted the use of business jets by corporate executives, to see the toll the downturn in the business and general aviation industries has taken on the Kansas city. “We have lost over 9,000 jobs in Wichita because of the economic downturn, and the string of negative press about general aviation and [resulting] fallout could cost this city 25,000 jobs,” Brewer says.