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
The Clinton Administration plans to add as much as $2 billion for U.S. National Missile Defense (NMD) efforts to beef up a test program that has been widely criticized as inadequate. The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) had planned just three NMD intercept tests through 1999. The extra money, the result of recommendations in the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), would enable more testing of exo-atmospheric kill vehicles (EKV)--the vital NMD interceptor technology--over the next three years.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
China's mounting efforts at rapid military modernization have rekindled the U.S. debate over whether Beijing could become the premier threat of the 21st century or merely seeks to update its large and antiquated forces.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
In its first mission undertaken outside the U.S., an Orbital Sciences Corp. Pegasus XL booster orbited a Spanish scientific satellite last week in an air launch off the Canary Islands. The Pegasus and its primary payload, the Minisat satellite, were dropped from Orbital Sciences' L-1011 aircraft at 39,000 ft. over the Atlantic Ocean on Apr. 21. The booster subsequently fired in midair and carried Minisat to its orbit of 570 X 577 km., inclined to the equator at 151 deg.