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
The first element of the International Space Station is slated for launch this summer, but whether assembly will actually begin then or face yet another delay is a question that now lies largely beyond NASA's control. The key is whether the Russian government, recently shaken up by President Boris Yeltsin, can come up with the money needed to complete the service module, a critical piece of station hardware needed early in the assembly process to provide long-term attitude control and initial life support for crews.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The U.S. government's efforts to block Lockheed Martin's proposed acquisition of Northrop Grumman appear to signal the end of an era of defense industry mega-mergers that have until now received strong support from the Pentagon.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The commercial space industry is bigger and stronger than ever, but the next few years will indicate whether billions of dollars invested in new consumer-oriented communications satellites will yield the payoffs that have been promised.