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 (New York)
When it comes to growth, Rockwell Collins CEO Clay Jones is more concerned with improving efficiency and profit margins than expanding the avionics company’s sales at any cost. “If you look at the history of this industry, there has been far more wealth destroyed via acquisitions than there has been created,” he said recently. “We don’t want to replicate that story.”

Antoine Gelain/Joseph C. Anselmo
Many insights can be drawn from Aviation Week’s Top-Performing Companies (TPC) rankings, but let me jump straight to a conclusion: As far as continental Europe is concerned, the time has come to shake things up and let a new generation of aerospace & defense (A&D) players emerge. For this to happen, Europe badly needs fresh ideas and money, and this can only come from private equity. What has already happened in the U.S. in that respect should encourage those who want Europe to regain competitiveness and should reassure those who fear private equity greed.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington), Robert Wall (Paris)
It's not easy running a company with two CEOs and two chairmen working in different countries, especially when it happens to be Europe's largest aerospace contractor. Tom Enders, the German co-CEO of EADS NV--the parent of Airbus--told a reporter at last month's Paris air show that the company was discussing whether to sell off its 46% stake in Dassault Aviation. He was promptly contradicted by his French counterpart, Louis Gallois.