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 (Washington )
Congressional researchers say lawmakers should prepare for Obama administration or Israeli requests for additional U.S. appropriations for joint U.S.-Israeli missile defense and an extension of U.S. loan guarantees to Israel beyond fiscal 2012, when they are set to expire, as well as new funding for joint U.S.-Israeli scientific research. Already the administration's fiscal 2013 request includes $3.1 billion in foreign military financing for Israel and $15 million for refugee resettlement.

Joseph C. Anselmo
In 1967, a 19-year-old university student made a daring escape from Fidel Castro's Cuba, reaching the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay. The chief of naval operations (CNO) happened to be visiting the base, and he took Pedro L. Rustan back to Florida on his plane. Forty-four years to the day after that escape, Pete Rustan retired as director of the National Reconnaissance Office's (NRO) Mission Support Directorate. His government service ended with an enviable list of accomplishments that led to significant advances in aviation and space and helped greatly improve U.S.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington )
Under pressure from Gulf Coast politicos, the Air Force is reconsidering plans to move eight C-130s to Montana from the 136th Airlift Wing in Fort Worth. The governors of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas recently wrote Obama to protest, saying the Gulf Coast needs those Air National Guard aircraft for use in natural disasters that have hit the region hard in recent years. And lawmakers have been hammering Air Force brass at every turn. Last week, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) lit into USAF Chief of Staff Gen.