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)
When Boeing takes an order for a new passenger airplane, several years can transpire before deliveries are made and payments are collected. Based on that model, the company's 2006 financial results should just be the start of a long run of growth. Revenues in Boeing's Commercial Airplanes unit rose 33% last year to $28.4 billion, and operating profit soared 91% to $2.7 billion, as the first benefits of an order surge that began in 2005 began to hit the bottom line. And there's much more to come.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
It may not have the heft of the proposed $4.8-billion sale of Smiths Aerospace to General Electric Co., but Esterline Technologies Corp.'s deal to acquire Canadian avionics concern CMC Electronics Inc. is another sign of supplier-level consolidation in aerospace, not to mention the growing role of private equity firms in industry mergers and acquisitions.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
Shortly after 9/11, executives from some of the leading aerospace companies in Tulsa, Okla., sat down to discuss impending layoffs. In the ensuing months, the region lost about 20% of its aerospace jobs as downturns intensified in the airline and commercial aircraft industries. But those executives now meet to talk about a new problem: how to attract and retain qualified workers. "The discussion has almost completely turned around," marvels Mary E. Smith, vice president of economic development at the Tulsa Metro Chamber of Commerce.