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
When U.S. Air Force planners decided to move ahead with new Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicles (EELVs), they anticipated that a heavy-lift variant would be needed for only a handful of launches of large, specialized government spacecraft. The demand was projected to shrink even more as the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), a main heavy-lift customer, shifted to smaller satellites.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
A European direct-to-home television satellite equipped with on-board multiplexing capability was successfully launched into geosynchronous transfer orbit by an Ariane 42P booster.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Intelsat's plan to spin off an independent satellite company represents a carefully crafted compromise between free traders who want to completely privatize the international consortium and developing nations that are highly dependent on the organization and opposed to restructuring of any kind.