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)
There's a bit of deja vu in hearing Scott Carson, the CEO of Boeing Co.'s Commercial Airplanes unit, caution that orders will slow in 2007. A year ago Carson, then the company's top airplane salesman, issued a similar warning about 2006. He may have been technically correct, but not by much. Last week's launch order for 20 747-8 passenger jets by Lufthansa German Airlines adds to another bonanza sales year (p. 39).

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
As if its struggling regional jet (RJ) business isn't trouble enough, Bombardier Inc. now faces questions about whether its corporate aircraft unit is losing ground to competitors. The company last week announced 57 new orders for such aircraft in the quarter ended Oct. 31, essentially even with the same period a year earlier and down 10 orders from the previous quarter, despite record demand for business jets (AW&ST Oct. 16, p. 28). "You clearly have lost market share," GMP Securities analyst Marko Pencak told company executives during an earnings call last week.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
With a backlog of $2.3 billion and a commanding share of the world's aircraft simulator market, Canada's CAE Inc. isn't especially worried about a privately owned competitor with just 200 employees. Then again, this challenger can hardly be ignored--it's literally down the street.