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.

 

Articles

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
France's Spot 4 Earth observation satellite is being readied for a crucial mission that aims to complete the recovery of the CNES space agency's imagery program from the loss of Spot 3 and serve as a bridge to the advanced-capability Spot 5. Scheduled for launch Mar. 20 on an Ariane 4 from the European spaceport here, the $590-million Spot 4 satellite offers measured improvements over its three predecessors but does not advance the Spot resolution capability of 10-meter panchromatic and 20-meter multispectral.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The impending arrival of U.S. commercial imagery systems with resolutions as sharp as 1 meter promises to revolutionize the remote sensing market, but France's CNES space agency and its commercial affiliate, Spot Image, are dubious about the market prospects for such systems.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Boeing is urging NASA to reconsider plans to spend $750 million to spur development of a next-generation reusable launch vehicle (RLV), saying the money would be better spent on space shuttle upgrades that could significantly lower the cost of operating the four orbiters and enable them to fly for another three decades.