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
Canadian buyout firm Onex Corp. and investment bank Goldman Sachs raised eyebrows when they paid $3.3 billion to acquire Raytheon Aircraft last year. After all, the Wichita, Kan.-based business and general aviation aircraft manufacturer had once been such a mess that no buyers would touch it, let alone pay a premium (AW&ST Jan. 1, 2007, p. 26).

Joseph C. Anselmo
As a high-profile defense contractor, General Dynamics Corp. has been shielded from the investor sell-off that led to sharp declines in the prices of commercial aerospace stocks (AW&ST July 21, p. 12). So it’s ironic that the standout in the company’s impressive second-quarter financial results is its commercial Gulfstream Aerospace unit, which accounts for about one-fifth of overall sales. GD reported a 25% increase in net income from a year earlier amid an 11% sales gain (see earnings summary, p. 26).

Joseph C. Anselmo
Boeing booked 13% fewer orders for commercial aircraft in the first half of 2008 than in the same period last year, but continues to sell jets at a faster rate than it can produce them. Backlog at the company’s Commercial Airplanes unit has reached a record $275 billion, or nearly eight times annual revenues, further cushioning the company against a downturn in the industry. Boeing booked 476 jet orders between Jan. 1 and June 30, compared with 549 orders during the first half of 2007.