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
Satellite television's challenge to the huge cable TV industry has gained new momentum with international media mogul Rupert Murdoch's plan to create a direct broadcast satellite (DBS) network with unprecedented capacity. Murdoch's News Corp. agreed last week to pay $1 billion in cash and assets for a 50% stake in EchoStar Communications Corp., a Colorado-based DBS system that began national service last year and had been seeking a cash infusion.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Russia's military might continues to wither, but U.S. defense analysts say that should not distract from the continuing dangers posed by its huge nuclear arsenal. Whether the U.S. deploys a national missile defense system in 2003 or later, it will initially be capable of warding off just a few missiles at a time. That will render it ineffective against a massive Russian nuclear strike. ``You're not for many, many years going to be able to do anything against a Russian attack,'' former Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey said.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The U.S. focus on developing anti-missile defenses has shifted to Third World ``rogue'' threats as a result of the Persian Gulf war, but debate continues to rage over how advanced the threats are and when America should deploy missile defense systems to counter them.