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 (New York)
Net earnings are commonly used to measure a company's financial performance, but when Frank C. Lanza wants to get a look at what's going on at the operating level, the metric he turns to is free cash flow. "If you don't see any free cash flow but a lot of earnings, you've got a problem," says the chairman/CEO of L-3 Communications Corp. "Earnings is great stuff for Wall Street, but if it doesn't have any cash that goes with it, it's only smoke."

Joseph C. Anselmo (San Diego and Palmdale, Calif.)
At a recent congressional hearing, the U.S. Air Force's chief of staff was asked how many Predator unmanned aerial vehicles his service would need in the upcoming fiscal year. "We're going to tell General Atomics to build every Predator they can possibly build," replied Gen. John P. Jumper, referring to the small San Diego company that developed the aircraft.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
The eye-popping gains of 2004 are history, but defense stocks continue to post better-than-average performances. Aviation Week's Aerospace 25 index is up 7.6% for the year, compared with a 2.2% decline for the S&P 500 index. And first-quarter earnings results widely beat Wall Street's expectations.