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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Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington )
The U.S., EU and Japan have filed complaints with the World Trade Organization over what they say are restrictive export controls by China on rare earth minerals. China accounts for the vast majority of output of 17 of these minerals that are used to produce a wide array of high-tech products, from precision-guided munitions to iPhones. The U.S. and its allies complain that by curtailing exports Beijing has driven up prices of rare earth minerals shipped abroad while keeping them low for buyers in China. The move drew praise from Rep.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington )
The fight over the Export-Import Bank's operating authority is set to take center stage in the Senate this week, where the chamber's Boeing supporters will take on loyalists to Delta Air Lines. Senators are likely to vote on a bipartisan proposal that would ultimately increase the bank's lending authority by 40%, to $140 billion, and extend its operating authority through 2015. Boeing has a number of pending sales that could be held up if the bank—which guarantees loans to buyers of U.S.-made products—reaches its lending cap, which it is nearing.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington )
NASA should cut back on the breadth of its aeronautics research to free up funds within a flat budget to return to X-plane flight research, says the National Research Council (NRC). Aeronautics funding accounts for just 3% of the space agency's budget and is spread too thin and unable to advance projects to the flight stage, which is vital to convincing industry and regulators to adapt new technologies, the NRC says in a new report.