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 (New York), Anthony L. Velocci, Jr. (New York )
Air Platforms Saab Aeronautics Avionics/Flight Management/Control Systems Woodward Governor Turbine Systems Civil/Military Training & Support Services Raytheon Technical Services Forgings/Castings/Precision Components Precision Castparts Investment Cast Parts Information Technology Mantech International Land, Missile & Sea Weapons Systems Oshkosh Defense

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
Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush's no-nonsense focus on improving margins and efficiency is paying dividends for this longtime TPC laggard. Northrop's respectable fourth-place finish in this year's TPC study is its best showing in more than a dozen years, and the company could be in a position to challenge General Dynamics and Boeing next year, now that it has divested a weak shipbuilding business that was pulling down its overall results. The bad news: Northrop and its peers face strong headwinds in the coming years as politicians in the U.S.