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)
A wiring debacle is setting back the debut of Airbus's new A380 jetliner by two years. Boeing botched development of a new generation of classified imagery satellites so badly that the U.S. government turned the contract over to Lockheed Martin last year. And the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle being developed for the U.S. Marine Corps by General Dynamics is struggling to meet reliability requirements, putting it in the crosshairs of budget cutters.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
The shock waves over the changing of the guard on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon reverberated to Wall Street last week, as investors sought to ascertain what changes the new regimes will make. In the two days after the Nov. 7 elections--capped off by the confirmation on Nov. 9 that Democrats had unexpectedly won control of the Senate as well as the House--military stocks took a modest hit. Lockheed Martin Corp. was down 2.4%, General Dynamics Corp. 2.3%, L-3 Communications Holdings 3.3%, Northrop Grumman Corp. 2.7% and Raytheon Co. 1.9%.

Joseph C. Anselmo
In its biggest deal since it bought TRW four years ago, Northrop Grumman announced it will purchase signals intelligence company Essex Corp. for $580 million ($24 a share). Essex supplies signals and imagery processing systems to the National Security Agency (NSA) and other intelligence and defense agencies. The company, based near the NSA in Columbia, Md., has grown from fewer than 50 employees in 2000 to nearly 1,000. Three classified programs account for about 60 percent of its revenues, which are forecast to be $330-350 million next year.