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 (Washington )
Under pressure from Gulf Coast politicos, the Air Force is reconsidering plans to move eight C-130s to Montana from the 136th Airlift Wing in Fort Worth. The governors of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas recently wrote Obama to protest, saying the Gulf Coast needs those Air National Guard aircraft for use in natural disasters that have hit the region hard in recent years. And lawmakers have been hammering Air Force brass at every turn. Last week, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) lit into USAF Chief of Staff Gen.

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, Robert Wall
When Chinese President Hu Jintao visited Washington last year, he unveiled with great fanfare $19 billion worth of purchases for Boeing 737 and 777 jets. There was only one catch: The aircraft had actually been ordered between 2007 and 2009. The central government in Beijing has long used its requisite sign-off on orders by Chinese airlines as a tool to further its political agenda, doling out—or withholding—big-ticket purchases at opportune moments.
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