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)
In an Oct. 6 speech in suburban Washington, Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary William J. Lynn outlined the tough reality faced by the Pentagon and its contractors. While the Defense Department projects it needs 2-3% real growth each year in its warfighting accounts—modernization, force structure, training—the reality is it is likely to get only 1%. And even that meager increase will probably come under pressure as the Obama administration and Congress grapple with a gargantuan federal budget deficit and a tidal wave of entitlement spending.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Buffalo, N.Y.)
The dilapidated houses that line the highway into downtown Buffalo are a stark reminder that this old industrial city has seen better days. But business is booming at the city’s main airport, thanks to Canada. Millions of Canadians have flocked to Buffalo Niagara International Airport in recent years, lured by lower fares, short security lines and a 30-min. drive from densely populated southern Ontario. On average, nearly 40% of the cars parked at the airport’s long-term lots sport Canadian license plates.

Joseph C. Anselmo
In an Oct. 6 speech in suburban Washington, Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary William J. Lynn outlined the tough reality faced by the Pentagon and its contractors. While the Defense Department projects it needs 2-3% real growth each year in its warfighting accounts — modernization, force structure, training — the reality is it is likely to get only 1%.