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), Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. (Washington)
Lockheed Martin Chairman/CEO Robert J. Stevens spoke with AW&ST Editor-in-Chief Anthony L. Velocci, Jr., and Senior Business Editor Joseph C. Anselmo about the company's fourth consecutive first-place finish in Aviation Week's Top-Performing Companies study. Stevens also addressed how he is positioning the company for a leaner defense environment as well as criticism of Lockheed Martin's performance on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Lockheed Martin again finished at the top of A&D companies with revenues greater than $20 billion, more evidence of the transformation of this one-time industry laggard. A focus on organic growth rather than acquisitions has led to low goodwill (the difference between the price paid for an asset and its book value) relative to many of its peers and a stellar showing in the TPC's Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) metric. But Lockheed is feeling the pinch of tighter Pentagon spending: Revenue grew just 1.4% in 2010, the lowest increase since 2001.

Joseph C. Anselmo
In 2008, Finmeccanica made a bold push into the U.S. defense market by buying DRS Technologies. But the hefty purchase price of $5.2 billion saddled the balance sheet of the Italian aerospace giant with a lot of goodwill. “Finmeccanica paid a very high price for DRS, and that has crippled them for some time,” says TPC adviser Charles Armitage. Finmeccanica now plans to sell off non-core units of DRS to help pay down its debt.