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 legislative battle is brewing here over whether a law requiring U.S.-made specialty metals in military hardware should be eased or made more restrictive. Aerospace industry lobbyists and their allies are blitzing the Senate side of the Capitol to gain support for exempting low-cost, generic components such as nuts, bolts, washers and screws, from the law. Companies far down the supply chain say they have no way of verifying the origin of such items, which can cost less than 1 cent and are often purchased in bulk from the commercial market.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
In today's scandal-weary environment, it takes only a whiff of trouble to send investors heading for the exits. That's true even for a company hitting on all cylinders, as aircraft interiors supplier B/E Aerospace Inc. is finding out. With more than half of the sales of seating in new airplanes and a robust aftermarket business, B/E is about as locked on to the commercial aircraft industry recovery as a company can be. Its stock was a huge winner in 2005, with an industry-leading 89% appreciation.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Shares in aircraft interiors supplier B/E Aerospace staged a slight recovery on May 22, but investors remained jittery over CEO Amin Khoury's connection to another company that has drawn attention for questionable stock option grants.