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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Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
In less than a year, government-backed Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE) has built an aircraft leasing business from scratch. That division, DAE Capital, recently announced $29 billion in orders from Airbus and Boeing for 200 jets: 70 A320s, 30 A350s, 70 737s, 15 787s, 10 777-300ERs and five 747-8 freighters. While it awaits those deliveries, DAE has acquired 20 aircraft from GE Commercial Aviation Services (Gecas) and eight from Emirates in a leaseback arrangement.

Joseph C. Anselmo
After taking the weekend to digest the news, Wall Street reacted with the same shock as everyone else to the U.S. Air Force’s selection of a European-led design over Boeing for its new KC-45 refueling tanker. In a flurry of research notes, analysts began to dissect the meaning of the Pentagon’s surprise decision, which was announced after the markets closed Feb. 29. “There aren’t many individual contracts that really move the needle for prime defense contractors, but this is one exception,” notes Citigroup’s George Shapiro.

Joseph C. Anselmo
He may be the most unpopular U.S. President in modern history, but investors in defense stocks owe thanks to George W. Bush. Shares in the Pentagon’s leading contractors have appreciated dramatically as U.S. military spending reaches levels not seen since World War II. Even with the overall stock market’s recent swoons, shares in Lockheed Martin Corp. are up 247% since Bush was elected in 2000, while L-3 Communications Holdings has risen 242%, General Dynamics Corp. 167%, Northrop Grumman Corp. 125% and Raytheon Co. 121%.