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
American intelligence agencies have billions of dollars worth of sophisticated equipment at their disposal, but when it comes to thwarting terrorist attacks on aviation targets, human spies are still paramount. While overall U.S. spending on intelligence has declined substantially in the past decade, the nation has sharply boosted the resources it devotes to ``human intelligence'' to combat terrorism.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA is planning to send two tiny science probes crashing into Mars to look for ice under the planet's surface and help validate technologies that could be used in future missions to the planet. The probes will travel to Mars in 1999 as the second mission of the agency's New Millennium space technology demonstration program. The primary objective of the mission, dubbed Deep Space-2, will be to demonstrate technologies that could one day be used in the operation of a ``network'' of spacecraft.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Motorola has completed integration on three small satellites that represent the first of more than 100 spacecraft slated to be put in orbit over the next few years to provide mobile voice communications anywhere on the globe. The Iridium venture's three 1,500-lb. satellites are scheduled to be launched on a Delta 2 in November or December from Vandenberg AFB, Calif.