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
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured close-up images of ``protoplanetary disks'' in the center of the Orion Nebula that scientists believe gives clues about how the solar system was formed 4.5 billion years ago. The new pictures--taken with Hubble's Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 and released last week by the Space Telescope Science Institute--include images of newly discovered disks of gas and dust around young stars (bottom left). Astronomers have long suspected that such disks represent an early stage of planet formation.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Defense Secretary William Perry is nearing approval of a new high-level authority to solve differences between the U.S. Defense Dept. and the intelligence community over space activities. The Joint Space Management Board, in the works for several months, has been designed to allow ``one-stop shopping'' for military space disputes that the Defense Dept., National Reconnaissance Office and intelligence agencies have been unable to resolve in the past.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
A major new competitor is positioning itself to take on Hughes' commanding lead in the booming U.S. direct broadcast satellite (DBS) market. EchoStar Communications Corp. is hoping to tap into the explosive growth that has made DBS one of the hottest consumer markets of the 1990s and helped Hughes' DirecTV venture sign up more than 1 million customers. Like DirecTV, EchoStar's system will combine high-powered satellites and digital compression to beam large amounts of programming directly to homes equipped with 18-in.-dia. receiver dishes.