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
SUBMARINE WARFARE: L-3 Communications has signed an agreement to acquire Chesapeake Sciences Corp., a Millersville, Md.-based company that develops and manufactures anti-submarine warfare systems. Financial terms were not disclosed. L-3 said Chesapeake Sciences’ expertise in toward sonar arrays for use onboard submarine and surface ship combatants will complement its products and expand its capabilities in anti-submarine warfare. Chesapeake Sciences will add about $70 million to L-3’s annual sales.

Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Joseph C. Anselmo (New York), Anthony L. Velocci (New York)
As its engineers vote on a four-year contract, Boeing’s leadership is looking for an end to the recurrent strife that idled its factories for nearly two months and pushed back deliveries 10 weeks or more.

Michael Mecham (San Francisco), Joseph C. Anselmo (New York), Anthony L. Velocci (New York)
Unlike machinists, who ended the strike in a single day at the polls, the 21,000 members of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (Speea) vote by mail. Ballots are to be counted on Dec. 1 on a contract that will give them a 20% pay increase, wider choice in healthcare plans, a boost in pension benefits and Boeing’s pledge of consultation on outsourced work. The contract period is to begin Dec. 2 and extend to Oct. 6, 2012.