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)
The recent sell-off in U.S. aerospace stocks provides a good example of how valuations are set by investor expectations of a company's future performance, not its current earnings. Though most aerospace companies posted third-quarter results that met or exceeded Wall Street's expectations, it wasn't enough to sooth market jitters about looming cuts to U.S. military spending and rising overhead costs in the commercial aircraft sector.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
Aerospace lags other industries in expanding its supply base to low-cost nations such as China and India, but that's likely to change dramatically in the coming years, according to a pair of new surveys. While aerospace suppliers in the U.S. and Western Europe are reaping the lion's share of today's business, net spending in those regions is on track to decrease as prime contractors farm out more work to reduce costs and gain entry to lucrative new markets.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
Computer Sciences Corp.'s stock shot up earlier this month after media reports that a group of private investors was proposing to break up the company and sell its government business to Lockheed Martin Corp. The pitch had appeal: CSC's stock has stagnated during the past four years while other federal IT contractors have seen their valuations soar.