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)
With investors already having pushed its stock up 33% since the start of the year, Alliant Techsystems Inc. was under the gun to deliver strong quarterly earnings. It didn’t disappoint. On Aug. 2 the company, which sells advanced weapons, ammunition and space systems, reported a 35% increase in net income from a year earlier thanks to strong organic sales growth and fatter profit margins, beating Wall Street’s consensus earnings estimate by a solid 10%.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
Three weeks after rolling out the 787 Dreamliner to great global fanfare, Boeing is planning to spend several hundred million more dollars to ensure it stays on schedule for first commercial delivery next spring.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
Nine months into the job, L-3 Communications Holdings CEO Michael Strianese is executing on his pledge to be more cautious about making acquisitions. Not long ago, the company was known for its voracious buying appetite. But L-3 has made just two small deals during Strianese's tenure, adding companies with a combined $102 million in annual revenues. In an earnings call with Wall Street analysts July 26, he disclosed that L-3 had considered a number of other acquisitions during the second quarter--including two multi-billion-dollar properties--and took a pass.