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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By Joe Anselmo
China's struggle to establish a consistent commercial launch record was dealt another setback when a premature cutoff of a Long March 3's third-stage engine left a Hughes HS 376 satellite in a useless orbit. The ChinaSat-7, built by Hughes Space and Communications for domestic use, was launched from the Xichang space center in southwest China at 6:27 p.m. Aug. 18. First- and second-stage performances were reported nominal and the third stage successfully completed a first-phase burn of about 430 sec.

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
NASA is considering ways to scale back early scientific work on the international space station to pay for cost increases that threaten to exhaust reserves for the project. The agency's station program director said a significant part of the cost problem has been caused by prime contractor Boeing Co., and termed the performance of the company and its subcontractors ``less than optimum.''

JOSEPH C. ANSELMO
Astounding findings that point to the presence of life on Mars could mark a huge breakthrough in the search for life beyond Earth and hold major implications for the U.S. planetary program. A team led by scientists at NASA and Stanford University unveiled startling results last week from a painstaking analysis of an ancient meteorite from Mars. They concluded that organic compounds and mineral features found in the potato-size rock show that tiny, primitive, single-cell life forms existed on Mars more than 3.6 billion years ago.