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 Clinton Administration's Fiscal 1999 budget proposal calls for NASA to start setting aside money to help pay for a next-generation reusable launcher and begin building a new spacecraft to study Jupiter's moon Europa, but the space agency should expect tight budgets to continue for the foreseeable future. While NASA has contributed mightily to the reduction of the federal deficit, absorbing a budget cut of more than 20% in the last five years, the agency found little thanks when President Clinton unveiled the first balanced U.S. budget in 30 years.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Five years ago, a forecast prepared by Arianespace projected that the growing size of geosynchronous telecommunications satellites would top out at 3 metric tons. The Ariane 5 booster, with an initial design capacity of 5.9 metric tons, appeared to be uniquely positioned. It could launch two state-of-the-art spacecraft at a time, generating new economies of scale and securing Arianespace's domination of the commercial launch market. But things haven't worked out as planned.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Almost two years after it lifted off, NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (Near) spacecraft returned for a close pass of Earth on its way to a scheduled encounter with a 25-mi.-long asteroid next January. The 2-hr. swingby of Earth on Jan. 22-23, seven months after Near flew past and imaged an asteroid beyond Mars, provided the spacecraft with a critical gravity assist to put it on a trajectory toward its main target, asteroid 433 Eros.