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
A new commercial venture has announced plans to land a small, privately funded spacecraft on a near-Earth asteroid in 2000 to gain scientific data and ``stake a claim'' for future mining rights. SpaceDev is hoping the sale of scientific data will pay for the cost of the mission, which is estimated at ``under $50 million.'' The Steamboat Springs, Colo., company plans to follow with more ambitious sample return missions in the coming decade.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
The U.S. Defense Dept.'s space architect is assessing how differently the military services would utilize space assets if their satellites could be launched ``on demand'' in a matter of days or weeks.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA faced the first serious crisis involving one of its ``faster-better-cheaper'' spacecraft when the Lewis remote-sensing demonstration satellite went into a spin and lost power two days after it was orbited on a Lockheed Martin Launch Vehicle.