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 (Washington)
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s bold move to slash Pentagon overhead costs (p. 20) is overshadowing a smaller but important initiative by the government to hand off more work to private industry. On Aug. 6, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) awarded 10-year contracts totaling $7.3 billion to two publicly traded satellite operators to supply imagery for the U.S. intelligence community and Defense Department. DigitalGlobe Inc. of Longmont, Colo., received a $3.5-billion award, while GeoEye Inc. of Dulles, Va., won a $3.8-billion contract.

Robert Wall (Paris), Joseph C. Anselmo (Farnborough)
Europe’s aerospace and defense industry continues to grapple with a shortage of engineers in specific fields, but companies are still finding work-arounds to ensure that projects advance.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Toronto-based Porter Airlines has signed a firm order with Bombardier for four Q400s, increasing its fleet of the 70- to 80-seat turboprop aircraft to 24. The order also includes options for six additional Q400s. Porter’s firm order is valued at $120 million, based on list prices, rising to $308 million if all six options are exercised.