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
Eighteen months after their first merger attempt disintegrated into a $5-billion lawsuit, EchoStar Communications Corp. and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. have agreed to make up and try again to create a mammoth direct-to-home (DTH) satellite TV system.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
A report prepared for NASA by an outside consultant recommends dropping the space shuttle fleet if a new RLV such as Lockheed Martin's VentureStar emerges from NASA's X-33 single-stage-to-orbit technology program. The report by Hawthorne, Krauss&Associates of Boston concluded that switching to a VentureStar-type vehicle for station servicing and other missions could cut NASA's annual launch costs by about two-thirds, to $825 million (see chart). That would free up $1.6 billion a year for other space endeavors.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) has gained a long-sought toehold in the market to launch U.S. government payloads, thanks to a partnership skirting policy restrictions that had previously blocked its Shavit launcher. IAI has teamed up with Coleman Research Corp. of Orlando, Fla., which plans to assemble a booster based largely on the three-stage, solid-fuel Shavit to launch small payloads from the U.S.