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
Although they haven't been paid in two months, employees at Russia's Lavochkin Association have continued to work on the Mars 96 spacecraft to keep it on schedule for a November launch. But unless the Russian government comes up with some money quickly, their dedication may be for naught. Lavochkin needs about $80 million to complete tests and integration and pay for launch on a Proton booster, according to Anatoli M. Baklunov, the organization's director general.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Russia's Proton booster has made its long-awaited debut in the commercial space market, successfully launching a European broadcast satellite into geosynchronous transfer orbit. The launch of the Hughes-built Astra 1F satellite from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Apr. 9 marked the first major step in plans by Russia's Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center and its U.S. partner, Lockheed Martin, to use the Proton to capture a significant share of the commercial launch market.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The Clinton Administration took a calculated risk when it decided in 1993 to redesign the international space station and give Russia a crucial role in the project. But if the politicians in Washington are successful in holding the Russians to their hardware commitments, the new station will be better equipped to weather a grounding of the space shuttle, according to NASA officials.