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
The aerospace and defense (A&D) industry saw profits and backlog decline in 2009, but weathered the brutal economic downturn better than many other industries, a new study finds. Deloitte LLP’s May 11 analysis of 91 A&D companies and units worldwide found that the industry’s operating earnings decreased by 15% last year, to $47.9 billion. But the decline was mainly driven by large program write-offs at Boeing, EADS and BAE Systems.

Joseph C. Anselmo
Orders for new commercial aircraft will rebound to more than 800 this year, reversing the steep decline of 2009, according to a new study by Deloitte LLP. Deloitte’s analysis of 91 aerospace and defense contractors worldwide also finds that industry employment has remained steady at 2 million, despite high-profile layoffs at Cessna, Hawker Beechcraft, Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Joseph C. Anselmo (Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil )
The new Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 jets are spearheading Embraer’s bold push into the business aircraft market. But the Brazilian company’s position as the leading manufacturer of smaller passenger jets is facing challenges as competitors move to introduce next-generation technologies and a new group of passenger aircraft builders rises in China, Russia and Japan. Embraer knows it has to respond, but how? A report that begins on p. 52 looks at the strategies that Embraer is considering and how a chief competitor, Bombardier, already has made its bet on the future.