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.

 

Articles

Joseph C. Anselmo
Brazilian regional aircraft manufacturer Embraer is making a big push into business aviation and very light jets (VLJs), launching five new offerings—the Phenom 100 and 300, Legacy 600, Legacy Shuttle and the Embraer 190-based Lineage 1000—and proposing two more. Luis Carlos Affonso, who runs the company’s executive jets business, recently spoke with AW&ST Senior Business Editor Joseph C. Anselmo. Excerpts follow.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Phoenix)
Pierre Chao, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington and a longtime aerospace industry thought leader, is amazed at how disciplined airlines have been at holding down capacity and staying focused on their financial health. Delta Air Lines Inc. recently posted record revenues, while Northwest Airlines had its best quarter in a decade. Both of those carriers began the year in Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Michael Bruno, Joseph Anselmo
PHOENIX - The business and government fascination with unmanned aircraft is likely to continue until a dominant concept takes root, but the market will still pale in comparison to stalwart aerospace and defense sectors like fighters, an analyst told an industry audience here Oct. 30.