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 (Tulsa, Okla.)
Like one of the tornados that rage across Oklahoma every spring, hard times landed on The Nordam Group with a fury that pushed one of the world's largest privately owned aircraft repair companies to the edge of survival. In short order, an airplane crash, a debilitating illness and a family feud decimated Nordam's senior management team--just as the company was waylaid by the most severe downturn the commercial aviation industry had ever seen.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
It may not be a household name, but Aviall Corp. has been one of the stock market's hottest aviation plays. Shares in the Dallas-based company, which sells aircraft replacement parts made by original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), have nearly doubled in price during the last year. The stock is up about 25% since Jan. 1, bolstered by the recent acquisition of exclusive aftermarket distribution rights to General Electric Co.'s widely used CF6-50 and CF6-80A aircraft engines. The deal ultimately could add $5 billion to Aviall's sales.

By Joe Anselmo
As if they haven't suffered enough, here's a thought to make airline CEOs shudder: oil at $105 a barrel. It's possible, according to a new Goldman Sachs report, which says oil supplies are so tight that one major disruption in production could trigger a "super spike" in prices. The last such spike occurred in 1979-80, when they climbed to what would be nearly $90 a barrel in today's dollars.