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
A leaner environment in defense spending is starting to eat into Boeing’s military profits. Tighter defense budgets in the U.S. and Europe are forcing the company to reduce its Defense, Space & Security business unit’s 2010 operating margin forecast to 9.5% from 10%. While the clarity on future U.S. defense priorities has improved, “several of our government customers are facing continued pressures,” CEO James McNerney notes.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Farnborough - You know times are tough when a company singles out the stagnant U.S. defense market as a growth opportunity. But that is exactly what EADS NV is doing. Leaders at the European defense giant used the Farnborough air show to reiterate an ambitious plan to grow their U.S. revenues eight-fold by 2020, to $10 billion a year. “International” is the new buzz word in the defense industry as contractors brace for their first downturn since the 1990s.

Guy Norris (Farnborough), Robert Wall (Farnborough), Joseph C. Anselmo (Farnborough)
Amid mounting speculation that one of the top two commercial airframers may forgo reengining its narrowbody family altogether, Airbus and Boeing will announce whether or not to upgrade the respective A320 and 737 engines this fall.