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

Michael Bruno (Washington), Kristin Majcher (Washington), Joseph C. Anselmo (Washington)
U.S. defense spending is almost certain to be stretched further—and definitely not grow more than already planned—even as newly empowered Republicans in Congress look to battle the Obama administration over a swath of issues, including conventional weapons programs, strategic systems and war strategies.

Joseph C. Anselmo, Bill Garvey
Anticipating an upturn in demand for its business jets, Gulfstream Aerospace says it will invest $500 million during the next seven years to further expand its home base facilities in Savannah, Ga., and add 1,000 new production specialists, engineers and support technicians to its current workforce there of 5,500 employees. The Nov. 15 announcement was a dose of good news for an industry that has been hit with thousands of layoffs during the past two years.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Anticipating an upturn in demand for business jets, Gulfstream Aerospace says it will invest $500 million during the next seven years to expand its home base in Savannah, Ga., and hire 1,000 new production specialists, engineers and support technicians. The expansion will increase Gulfstream’s employment in Savannah by 15%, bringing a dose of good news to an industry that has lost tens of thousands of jobs during the past two years.