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 (Washington)
Boeing’s new 787 jet is full of cutting-edge technology such as an all-composite fuselage and advanced electronics. But it was the shortage of a simple and inexpensive part—a 3/16-in. titanium fastener made by Alcoa—that played a prominent role in a series of setbacks that have delayed the commercial transport’s debut by more than a year.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington), Graham Warwick (Washington), Andy Nativi (Genoa)
It was only a matter of time before an aerospace giant from continental Europe moved to copy the blueprint that BAE Systems used so successfully to penetrate the U.S. defense market. The British contractor parlayed a series of high-profile acquisitions of American defense electronics and armored vehicle operations to become one of the Pentagon’s leading suppliers. The question was which company would be the first to follow suit.

Joseph C. Anselmo
U.K.-based Cobham plc. has been steadily building a business in the U.S. defense electronics market since the mid-1990s. So it had to be frustrating for Cobham executives that their latest move was overshadowed when Italy’s Finmeccanica SpA. purchased DRS Technologies Inc., a fast-growing U.S. defense electronics company, for $5.2 billion (see p. 38).