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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Joseph C. Anselmo
In early 1990, Hughes Communications, Inc. was part of a team of telecommunications heavy-hitters that announced plans to establish a pioneer direct broadcast satellite (DBS) service. Known as Sky Cable, the $1 billion venture included media mogul Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., NBC, and Cablevision Systems Corp. But within a year Sky Cable was dead, a victim of a recession-racked economy and jittery financial markets that wouldn't finance the project.

Joseph C. Anselmo
A few days after Thanksgiving, if all goes according to plan, the European Space Agency will conduct the first test flight of its new Ariane 5 rocket. After a second test launch in April or May 1996, the rocket will be turned over to Europe's Arianespace consortium, which has already grabbed about 60% of the commercial launch market away from U.S. firms. Arianespace hopes to begin commercial flights of the new launch vehicle in October 1996. The impending arrival of the Ariane 5 raises some questions:

Joseph C. Anselmo
About a year from now, a unique bipartisan presidential commission will deliver a report to Congress laying out a blueprint for reshaping the vast U.S. intelligence apparatus, now that its main adversary, the Soviet Union, has crumbled.