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

Kristin Majcher, Joseph C. Anselmo
As the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives brings new leadership to the committees that oversee the Defense Department, it remains unclear how military funding will fare as Congress grapples with a national debt that is fast approaching $14 trillion.

Joseph C. Anselmo, Michael Bruno
PHOENIX — Aerospace contractors must face the reality that defense budgets are going to remain under pressure for years to come and figure out how to keep their companies relevant in a leaner environment, says a senior industry executive. “The crunch has begun,” says Tom Bell, vice president for business strategy at Boeing Military Aircraft. “It’s real, and it’s going to be with us for some time.”

Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington )
Frederico Fleury Curado, the president and CEO of Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer, is frustrated that his company cannot shake long-held perceptions that it operates in a low-cost environment. He points to Brazil’s rising wages, high taxes and costly regulatory burdens. Meanwhile, a sharp rise in the value of the Brazilian real against the U.S. dollar is further eroding the once enviable cost advantage of operating in Brazil. Those are reasons why Embraer is moving assembly of some of its new business jets offshore—to the U.S.