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
When space shuttle Columbia completed its maiden voyage with a smooth touchdown in the California desert in April, 1981, the future appeared almost boundless to enthusiasts of the new space transportation vehicle.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA can look forward to stable funding in Fiscal 1997, but it will be all downhill after that if the Clinton Administration has its way. The Administration's proposed budget assumes the space agency will absorb another $3.3-billion cut in planned spending through Fiscal 2000 as part of the President's drive to balance the federal budget by 2002. The reduction would come on top of a $5-billion cut ordered by the White House last year.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
It was just six years ago that NASA managers drew up a proposal for a $10 billion mission to send a robotic spacecraft and automobile-sized rover to Mars to collect rock, soil and atmospheric samples and bring them back to Earth. Today, the cash-strapped agency is planning a less-ambitious mission in 2005 to return samples from Mars for as little as $200 million. And a group of NASA scientists thinks the key to getting costs down is tapping into Mars' resources to manufacture the propellant needed to bring the samples back to Earth.