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
A debate between the House and Senate over whether to begin building a new generation of small reconnaissance satellites held up last year's intelligence authorization bill for months. Now a U.S. Air Force advisory board has weighed in, saying today's vaunted but expensive fleet of U.S. intelligence and military satellites should ultimately be replaced by distributed systems made up of many small satellites.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA's vision of the future calls for private industry taking the reins in developing new launch technologies. But questions are mounting within the agency about whether U.S. companies are up to the task. The first test of NASA's new government/industry formula faltered earlier this month when Orbital Sciences Corp. and Rockwell International withdrew from development of the X-34 launch vehicle after determining it wouldn't be commercially viable.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Staying within a budget used to be something of a joke at NASA. In 1992, a congressional study found spacecraft development cost overruns averaging 75%. But today, under shrinking overall funding and Administrator Daniel S. Goldin's ``better, faster, cheaper'' regime, living within one's means is deadly serious business for NASA projects. So it's little surprise that the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (Near) has emerged as the poster child of the Discovery program before it has even left the ground.