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
SAN DIEGO – The average cost overrun on U.S. defense acquisition programs could reach 46 percent within a decade, adding more strain to a system that already is facing the end of robust budget growth, according to a study released Nov. 12. The report by Deloitte LLP predicts that a “vicious cycle of budget overruns” on Pentagon programs caused by unstable funding, overly optimistic planning, conflicting priorities and limited foresight will continue to worsen unless reforms are made in both government and industry.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington), Madhu Unnikrishnan (Washington), Robert Wall (Paris)
A drop of more than 50% in oil prices since last July has transformed assessments of the U.S. airline industry from bleak to bright. Analysts are now projecting domestic carriers will rake in billions of dollars of profit next year. Michael Derchin of FTN Midwest Securities went so far as to predict last week that the industry will return to profitability this quarter.

Joseph C. Anselmo
The rumors are already flying. Less than 36 hr. after Democratic Sen. Barack Obama won the U.S. presidential election, a senior executive at an F-22 supplier told AVIATION WEEK that the Raptor program is marked for termination. His fears are well grounded, since some of Obama’s defense advisers view the costly fighter jet as a Cold War relic. But it’s unlikely the new President-elect is going to make such momentous moves anytime soon.