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.

 

Articles

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington )
Ever since a wave of mergers greatly reduced the number of prime contractors in aerospace and defense from 1992-2003, prevailing wisdom has held that the industry's top-tier companies have grown large enough. Now one of those giants, United Technologies Corp., is challenging that assumption by forging an $18.4 billion agreement to acquire Goodrich Corp.

Joseph C. Anselmo (San Diego )
Walter J. Zable lights up as he talks about some of the advanced defense technologies his company is developing. The chairman and CEO of Cubic Corp. describes an optical communications system that can help steer a sniper's bullet to a target a mile away, an advanced system to detect improvised explosive devices and a compact, encrypted data-link system for smaller unmanned aircraft. “You have to stay ahead of the game,” he explains.

Joseph C. Anselmo
It took three years, but Louis Chenevert has made United Technologies Corp. his company. With an $18.4 billion deal to acquire Goodrich Corp., the chairman and CEO of the aerospace-industrial conglomerate is placing a costly bet on the future of the commercial aircraft sector. He is also stepping out from under the big shadow cast by his legendary predecessor, George David.