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)
Early this year, General Dynamics Corp. Chairman/CEO Nicholas D. Chabraja lectured financial analysts who were projecting the company could earn $7 a share in 2005. "I'm trying to slow you guys down, you're getting too far ahead of me," he complained. "It almost doesn't matter what I say any more--people add on to it." Last week, after announcing second-quarter financial results that beat Wall Street's expectations, Chabraja rolled out his new earnings estimate: $7.05 a share. "I'm embarrassed," he allowed.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
If L-3 Communications Corp. Chairman/CEO Frank C. Lanza ever decides to retire, perhaps he'll reveal the secret sauce behind his strategy. In eight years, Lanza has used dozens of niche acquisitions to transform the discarded defense electronics units of the old Loral Corp. into one of the world's largest defense contractors. The company's revenue growth has averaged 37% a year and, since going public in 1998, L-3 has returned 26% annually to its shareholders. By contrast, the average return of the S&P 500 during the same period was 1%.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
U.S. airlines are operating more efficiently than they have in years, traffic is at record levels, and more seats than ever are filled. They're also barreling toward a collective loss of $5 billion or more this year. The disconnect: An unrelenting spike in oil prices that has effectively wiped out big cost-cutting gains made by legacy carriers.