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

By Joe Anselmo
Six years ago this week, the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) rocked the aerospace industry by choosing Boeing to build its next generation of secret imaging satellites, bypassing Lockheed Martin, the decades-long incumbent on the program.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
A large second-quarter loss has forced Independence Air to postpone the delivery of six Airbus A319s as it struggles to avoid a bankruptcy filing. The airline's parent company, Flyi Inc., said it lost $98.5 million ($2.01 a share) for the quarter ended June 30, leaving the carrier with a cash balance of just $66 million. Flyi also disclosed that it was making contingency plans for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
The U.S. may be the engine that drives the world economy, but American airlines certainly are not fueling the current commercial aerospace recovery. Cash-strapped U.S. carriers could account for just 5% of civil jet orders this year, far below their 30-40% share in past recoveries, according to a new report from a team led by Byron Callan, Merrill Lynch's senior aerospace analyst. Underpinning this upswing--and the accompanying rise in the stock prices of aircraft builders and their suppliers--is a boom in orders from Asia.