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
On Aug. 18, 1960, 35 years ago today, a gold-plated capsule attached to a parachute descended toward the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii and was snatched in mid-air by a U.S. C-119 aircraft. Sealed inside the capsule was a precious cargo: 3,000 feet of film containing the first images ever recovered from space. The images would mark the first payoff for Project Corona, a CIA/Air Force satellite effort begun two years earlier under such secrecy that few members of Congress, let alone the American public, knew of its existence.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO/AVIATION WEEK GROUP/WASHINGTON
The Federal Communications Commission earlier this year narrowed the field of first round ``Big LEO'' competitors by issuing licenses to the three ventures it felt had the most clout: the Motorola-led Iridium, Loral-led Globalstar and TRW-led Odyssey projects. Now the race to get into orbit is on.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Several U.S.-led ventures are staking billions of dollars on a new space-based component of the communications revolution. With demand for services such as fax, paging and mobile telephone communications soaring, they're betting that business consumers and the general public will pay for the ability to tie into such services just about anywhere on the globe via satellites.