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.

 

Articles

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
Demand for commercial aircraft is sagging, financing is hard to come by, the stock market is in turmoil, and ominous signals from the Obama administration are creating worries that U.S. defense spending could be targeted for cuts. But as aerospace and defense companies brace for leaner times, there’s a glimmer of hopeful news. The industry is much healthier than it was in 2001, when the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks triggered the last downturn in commercial aerospace.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Turbulence on Wall Street and in the global economy will not knock Boeing off its delivery schedule this year, a top company executive said Tuesday. Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO Scott Carson brushed aside speculation that the record backlogs at his company and Airbus could be vulnerable to large numbers of deferrals or cancellations in 2009 because of tight credit conditions and plummeting demand for air travel around the globe.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Gulfstream is cutting production of its large-cabin aircraft by more than 20 percent this year, reversing management’s earlier belief that a steep decline in global demand for business jets would not have a severe impact on its higher-end models.