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)
It's not easy being on top of the world. Just look at General Dynamics Corp. With wide exposure to the fast-growing U.S. Army budget, the company is well-positioned to benefit from huge war expenditures in Iraq and Afghanistan. General Dynamics expanded its presence in the red-hot information technology market with the $2.2-billion acquisition of Anteon Corp. in June. Margins are recovering in its shipbuilding business, and Gulfstream Aerospace, the company's business jet arm, is capitalizing on a surge in demand for corporate aircraft.

Joseph C. Anselmo with Michael Bruno (Washington)
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once argued forcefully against congressional proposals to expand the U.S. Army to ease the strain of occupying Iraq. "We simply do not expect to have 100,000, 120,000 troops in a single country permanently deployed," he said. That was nearly three years ago. Last week, Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker revealed the Army is budgeting to keep 120,000 soldiers in Iraq--plus 20,000 Marines--through 2010.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington and Montreal)
Dassault Aviation recently closed its largest-ever sale of business aircraft, marking the occasion with an elaborate signing ceremony at an ornate Paris hotel. The $1.1-billion order from fractional operator NetJets Europe for 24 long-range Falcon 7X jets was trumpeted as a "coming of age" for private aviation in Europe.