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, Michael A. Taverna
The financial crisis that originated in the U.S. cascaded down on Europe last week, sending leaders there racing to shore up their nations’ banks. The deepening credit freeze is also forcing European aerospace and defense companies to take a hard look at how it could impact their operations. A top concern is how the paralyzed credit markets will affect the smaller suppliers, which feed the operations of large A&D manufacturers.

Joseph C. Anselmo, Graham Warwick
The turmoil gripping financial markets will have little long-term impact on demand for business jets, according to a forecast widely viewed as a barometer of the industry’s health. But critics question whether a market where demand is driven by corporate profits can really fly around the economic storm.

Joseph C. Anselmo
You know things are bad when your industry is underperforming the overall stock market in these tumultuous times. Between Sept. 12—just before the meltdowns of investment banks Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch sent investors into panic mode—and Oct. 1, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 7% and the S&P 500 index 5%. But many stocks with exposure to commercial aerospace have fared much worse, including Allegheny Technologies Inc. (down 31%), B/E Aerospace Inc. (30%), Precision Castparts Corp. (26%), Spirit AeroSystems Holdings (24%), Goodrich Corp.