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 (Bakers, N.C.)
Pat Hassey spent much of his career railing against the use of composite materials as a substitute for aluminum. But today, the 62-year-old metals industry CEO can be heard expounding on how the increased use of composites in next-generation aircraft is going to make his shareholders a lot of money.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
As oil prices marched inexorably upward during the past four years, conventional wisdom held that costly crude helped boost demand for aircraft by encouraging airlines to replace their gas-guzzlers with new jets that are less expensive to operate. But with oil topping $135 a barrel and airlines hunkered down in survival mode, one group of analysts thinks prices have reached the tipping point from being a stimulant of aircraft demand to being a drag.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Oil prices have risen so high they threaten to choke off demand for new aircraft as financially battered airlines hunker down in survival mode. Conventional wisdom has held that more expensive oil bolsters demand for new aircraft by encouraging carriers to replace their older gas guzzlers with new jets that are less costly to operate. But with crude hitting a record $133 a barrel on Wednesday, a London-based team of Credit Suisse analysts concludes that prices have passed the tipping point from being a stimulant of aircraft demand to being a drag.