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.

 

Articles

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
A preliminary plan drawn up by NASA and the Russian Space Agency envisions using the space shuttle to deliver Russian hardware to the international space station and resupply the orbiting Mir station. A ``protocol'' drafted in Houston last week by NASA and RSA managers seeks to ensure on-time delivery of key Russian components to the international station while accommodating Moscow's demand to utilize Mir beyond its originally scheduled shutdown in November, 1997.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
AT&T and MCI's rivalry spilled over into the direct broadcast satellite (DBS) business last week as each shelled out hundreds of millions of dollars for a slice of the rapidly growing market. AT&T began the week by agreeing to pay $137.5 million for a 2.5% stake in Hughes' DirecTV service. Announcement of the deal, which included options allowing AT&T to increase its equity share in DirecTV to 30%, sent Hughes Electronics stock up 10%, its biggest single-day gain ever.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Lockheed Martin is heading a joint venture that plans to orbit up to three geosynchronous satellites to provide mobile voice, data and fax communications to the Middle East, Mediterranean and northern half of Africa. The venture, Satphone International, plans to begin service in late 1998, when the first of its next-generation Lockheed Martin Astro Space A2100 satellites is scheduled to be orbited.