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

Graham Warwick, Joseph C. Anselmo
– U.S. aerospace industry sales are expected to grow again next year, but the upturn that began in 2004 is leveling out as the economic recession takes hold, says the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA).

Joseph C. Anselmo
You wouldn’t know it from the sea of red arrows on the left, but a number of signs are suggesting the aerospace and defense industry won’t fare nearly as poorly as the overall economy in 2009. A new forecast from the Aerospace Industries Assn. (AIA) last week projects orders will be down 14% this year from 2007 (p. 26). But even disegarding sales delayed during the two-month machinists strike at Boeing Co., industry backlog should have expanded another $30 billion for the year.

Graham Warwick (Washington), Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
The aerospace industry’s bull run is over, but a large backlog of commercial aircraft orders and set funding for military and space programs should keep sales growing next year through a brutal economic downturn.