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. Army demand for aircraft parts contributed to a surprising rise in the nation’s durable goods orders in September, the Commerce Department reported Oct. 29. Nationwide demand for durable goods rose 0.8 percent during the month to $208 billion after declining 5.5 percent in August. Orders for defense aircraft and parts totaled $5.7 billion during the month, up 10.1 percent from August. All of those orders were from the Army and were for parts, according to Adriana Stoica, a Commerce aircraft analyst.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Embraer and Bombardier haven’t lost any orders from their regional aircraft backlogs because of customer financing problems, and unlike Boeing and Airbus, they have no plans to directly finance some buyers if the credit markets don’t loosen up soon. But the two companies, which dominate the market for regional jets, say they are under no illusions that they will not be affected by the credit crisis that has sparked global economic turmoil.

Joseph C. Anselmo
As the presidential election campaign between Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama heads into its final week, a lot of prognostications have been made about what the outcome will mean for defense spending. The truth is that military expenditures are going to come under intense scrutiny—and very well could decline—no matter who moves into the White House next January.