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 (Montreal and Toronto )
Five years ago, regional jet pioneer Bombardier Aerospace was desperately seeking a comeback. Soaring fuel prices had made its 50-seat RJs uneconomical to operate. Rival Embraer was rolling out a family of newer and more spacious “E-Jets” in the 70-120-seat market. And the Canadian airframer’s proposal to move upmarket with an uninspiring new family of larger jets dubbed the “CSeries” was widely panned by analysts and investors.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Botucato, Brazil), Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. (Botucato, Brazil)
Ever since it entered the regional jet market in the early 1990s, Embraer has used the advantage of lower wages in Brazil to hold down costs and competitively price its aircraft. But Brazil’s rapid economic growth and appreciation of the nation’s currency, the real, against the U.S. dollar are eroding that advantage.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil )
The new Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 jets are spearheading Embraer’s bold push into the business aircraft market. But the Brazilian company’s position as the leading manufacturer of smaller passenger jets is facing challenges as competitors move to introduce next-generation technologies and a new group of passenger aircraft builders rises in China, Russia and Japan. Embraer knows it has to respond, but how? A report that begins on p. 52 looks at the strategies that Embraer is considering and how a chief competitor, Bombardier, already has made its bet on the future.