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 )
U.S. President Barack Obama’s fiscal 2012 budget request is largely good news for the Pentagon. Though the $671 billion defense blueprint is 5% lower than the president’s request last year, much of the reduction comes from the drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq. Other modest cuts already were telegraphed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The Pentagon’s core budget would actually rise slightly, to $553 billion, though not enough to keep pace with inflation.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Cleveland ), Madhu Unnikrishnan (Washington )
Is the sum of the individual pieces worth more than the whole? The answer to that question led to a recent decision by ITT Corp. to split into three stand-alone companies: defense, industrial products and water technologies. The breakup of the 90-year-old conglomerate will unlock value for its shareholders, explains CEO Steven Loranger.

Joseph C. Anselmo
John Young, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief from 2007-09, worries that the government and defense industry’s atrocious track record on program execution could stifle innovation at the far reaches of the supply chain. “Small firms do not have the resources to weather program start delays and source selection slips,” he says (see p. 24). Fred Lisy knows exactly what Young is talking about.