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
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). The trade group is expecting year-end industry sales of $204.4 billion for 2008, up from $200.3 billion in 2007 but less than forecast a year ago, largely because of the Boeing strike, which is expected to lower 2008 sales by $5 billion.

Joseph C. Anselmo (New York)
You can’t blame U.S. aerospace and defense industry leaders for being nervous in these tumultuous economic times. Automakers, banks, insurance companies and state governments have lined up for massive federal bailouts. President-elect Barack Obama wants to spend yet more money on job creation and infrastructure projects. But there’s been scant talk about how Uncle Sam is going to pay for it all. Those hefty expenditures on defense are a tempting target.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
On a recent Southwest Airlines flight to Phoenix, I was surprised when Ed Wheeler, the president of Honeywell International Inc.’s Defense & Space unit, squeezed into a middle seat next to me, near the back of the all-coach cabin. As he munched on his free peanuts, Wheeler told me that he and his program managers are doing a lot of flying in coach these days, given the dismal state of the economy. That encounter came to mind a few days later as I watched members of Congress dress down the leaders of General Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co.