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

MICHAEL A. TAVERNA and JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The success of NASA's Mars Pathfinder and the discovery of possible ancient life on the red planet have reignited excitement in Japan and Europe about Mars and other parts of the solar system. The new enthusiasm has bolstered hopes that cash-strapped space agencies in the U.S., Europe, Russia and Japan can pool their resources for a sample return mission to Mars in 2005 and, ultimately, a human landing on the planet.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA is throwing its support behind a proposal to rescind an 11-year-old presidential edict and a provision in U.S. law that virtually prohibits the space shuttle from carrying commercial satellites into orbit. The policy reversals are being pushed by United Space Alliance (USA), the venture that manages shuttle operations, as part of a plan it has begun to develop with NASA to completely privatize the shuttle in five years.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The U.S. Defense Dept., banking on a proposed doubling of the National Missile Defense (NMD) budget, plans to substantially expand the number of costly flight tests, but the Clinton Administration is holding firm against calls to speed up deployment.