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
In a high-stakes game of budgetary brinkmanship, appropriators in the U.S. House responded to the Clinton Administration's dare not to exceed federal spending caps by cutting NASA's budget request a whopping 10% last week. The question now is whether the White House and congressional Republicans will back down from their budget standoff or force NASA to go through with drastic cuts to its space exploration programs.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA's long-awaited Chandra Observatory is being hailed as the Hubble Space Telescope of the X-ray field, designed to provide unprecedented insights into the ``hidden universe'' visible only in the X-ray wavelengths.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO and CRAIG COVAULT
NASA is investigating two serious malfunctions during the launch of space shuttle Columbia, a hydrogen leak that could have forced a risky return-to-launch-site abort and an electrical short circuit that greatly increased the risk to the orbiter and crew if other critical failures had occurred. Columbia's crew ultimately reached orbit safely, deployed the $1.5-billion Chandra X-ray Observatory without a hitch, and landed safely back at the Kennedy Space Center on July 27.