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 (Le Bourget )
Avionics supplier Rockwell Collins consistently registers one of the highest rates of internal R&D investment in the A&D industry. But CEO Clay Jones, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, answers emphatically in the negative when asked if defense contractors should pony up more of their own money for cutting-edge research to offset declines in government funding. “There is no argument to be made in this environment for pure company-funded R&D to sell into military markets,” he says.

Joseph C. Anselmo
At a pre-air show briefing for journalists in Paris last week, EADS leaders presented a graphic that would suggest the Pentagon owes them a big favor. In the 2008 competition for the U.S. Air Force’s tanker contract, Boeing bid $42 billion. When the program was re-competed, Boeing’s ultimately successful bid came in at $31.5 billion. The not-so-subtle implication: EADS’s decision not to pull out of the tanker competition last year after U.S. partner Northrop Grumman quit will save U.S. taxpayers more than $10 billion.

Robert Wall (Le Bourget), Joseph C. Anselmo (Le Bourget), Jens Flottau (Le Bourget), Guy Norris (Le Bourget)
A week of massive order intake has aircraft makers wondering how much further and faster they need to ramp up production to meet demand. But it also raises strategic product policy concerns for some, including Boeing, which is grappling with whether to re-engine the 737 or launch the New Small Airplane (NSA).