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)
Investor enthusiasm is usually good news for a company. But some aerospace suppliers are winning attention from a class of investors that gives CFOs heartburn: short-sellers. Short-sellers are hedge funds in the high-risk business of betting that a company's stock price will decline. The funds borrow shares that they don't yet own, and then sell them with the expectation they can purchase the stock back later at a lower price. If the stock goes down, a fund makes a profit--but if the price goes up, the short-seller takes a loss.

Joseph Anselmo
Washington-based private equity powerhouse Carlyle Group is recouping some of its investment in Firth Rixson, a U.K.-based aerospace metals supplier, by selling a 36% stake in the company to Lehman Brothers-Investment Partners.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
One need look no further than the recent financial results of SES Global SA to find evidence that the clouds are starting to lift in the satellite services business. Net profit for the first six months of 2006 was up 29% from a year earlier, to 216 million euros ($276 million) on a 17% gain in revenues. A glut in global satellite capacity is easing, and big acquisitions by SES and rival Intelsat Ltd. have brought a much-needed consolidation to the industry.