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 and Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. (Hartford, Conn.)
What do you do when you’re scheduled to take over from a retiring CEO who has transformed a laggard company into an industry model, delivering nearly a 1,300% shareholder return along the way? For starters, you don’t talk about deviating far from his playbook.

Joseph C. Anselmo (New York)
Remember the infamous ice storm that left thousands of JetBlue Airways passengers stranded at New York’s Kennedy Airport last February? That and another winter storm cost the airline $41 million in lost revenue, turning what should have been a first-quarter profit into a $13-million operating loss.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
John Heimlich, chief economist at the Air Transport Assn., is forecasting that U.S. passenger and cargo carriers will post a collective profit of $5 billion this year, the industry’s best showing since 1999. The bad news is that oil closed above $80 a barrel for the first time last week, placing new pressure on carriers to cut costs and increase revenues to avoid slipping back into red ink.