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
Photograph: The U.S. Air Force plans to award a contract to private industry to oversee its Minuteman 3 and Peacekeeper ICBMs. A Peacekeeper launch is shown here. Alliant Techsystems and TRW are involved in a high stakes competition for a contract to manage and upgrade the U.S. Air Force's fleet of intercontinental ballistic missiles over the next decade and a half. The Air Force is planning to transfer responsibility for maintaining the readiness of its 500 Minuteman 3 ICBMs and 50 Peacekeepers to a prime contractor early next year.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Photograph: This ground station in Northern Canada is one of four tracking facilities built for the Iridium system. Dishes are housed in protective radomes. The Iridium venture has successfully orbited more than one-fourth of its 66 operational satellites, putting the test to one of the most sophisticated ground control operations ever designed for a commercial space system.

Joseph C. Anselmo
An international team of astronomers using two X-ray spacecraft have discovered a puzzling object that is unlike any seen before. The object, named AXJ2019+117, appears to have the mass and dimensions of a cluster of galaxies. But it contains only one large galaxy and a few ``dwarf'' galaxies. That's surprising, because clusters of galaxies usually contain hundreds or thousands of galaxies encompassing hundreds of billions of stars.